Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. She reveals how every moment was brilliantly stage-managed for maximum effect. Woven into the recreation of the wedding day is the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement, and its political importance.
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves fr...
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Bo...
The world watched with awe when Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle tied the knot in one...
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...
Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most ext...
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of...
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the politi...
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John ...
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her ma...
Experience the most historic wedding of this century through images shot by the prestigious London T...
This 2000 documentary, "Scorched Earth," tells the story of the destructive policy that was used by ...
Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century lov...
A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record...
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill durin...