Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
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Documentary
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 3
avg.Runtime | 60 min
First EP | 2013-04-08
Last EP | 2013-04-22
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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.
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Silver River Productions
BBC
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 2013-04-08
1
Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men
2013-04-08
Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.
2
Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
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 William and Mary to the beginnning of a new dynasty, the Hanoverians.
3
Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors
2013-04-22
Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria and her descendants.
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