Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History (2013)

April. 08,2013

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Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

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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Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

2013

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.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2013

3 Episode

Episode 1 - Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

April. 08,2013

Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.

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Episode 2 - Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

April. 15,2013

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.

Episode 3 - Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

April. 22,2013

Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria and her descendants.

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.