Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets
9
2020
Documentary
In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
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- Cast:
- Lucy Worsley
Episode 3 : The Russian Revolution
September. 12,2021
The October Revolution of 1917 has gone down in history as the only Russian Revolution that really mattered. But Lucy Worsley reveals that the earlier revolution in February 1917 was downplayed in Bolshevik history books and films, despite the fact that it was the truly spontaneous popular uprising that swept the Czar from power.
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Episode 2 : George IV and the Regency
September. 05,2021
Lucy Worsley reveals how mental health problems forced King George III to relinquish power to his debauched and extravagant son, George IV. Was this really an era of elegance and regal splendor or an age of radicalism and revolution? How were myths and secrets used to save the British monarchy?
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