Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

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20131h

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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

3 Episodes • Premiered 2013

Still image for Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History season 1 episode 1: Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

1. Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

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

Still image for Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History season 1 episode 2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

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.

Still image for Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History season 1 episode 3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

3. Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

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

Cast

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Lucy Worsley

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