Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History(2013)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2013-04-08
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 5.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the nation.
Keywords
illnessbritish historybritish monarchy
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Season 1
Episodes: 3E01
Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men
Air Date: 2013-04-08
Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.
E02
Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
Air Date: 2013-04-15
Lucy takes a look at the medical histories of the later Stuarts, from the exile of James II and the succession of Wil...
E03
Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors
Air Date: 2013-04-22
Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria an...
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