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Series · 2013–2013Ended

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

5.0·1 season·3 episodes·60 min avg.·United Kingdom

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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Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to MenUp next
Apr 8, 2013·7.0

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

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Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
Apr 15, 2013·7.0

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.

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Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors
Apr 22, 2013·7.0

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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Lucy Worsley
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