Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
Season 1
2013tvEnded1 Season · 3 Ep
Documentary
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Network: BBC Two
Season aired: 2013-04-08
Overview
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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Episodes · 3
1
Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men
1h 0m2013-04-08
Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.
2
Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
1h 0m2013-04-15
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
1h 0m2013-04-22
Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria and her descendants.
