BBC - Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Series 2 (2020) Part 2 George VI and the Regency
Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Series 2
Documentary series in which Lucy Worsley dispels the myths behind some of the key moments in royal history.
Part 2 George VI and the Regency
We think of the Regency as genteel and well-ordered beautiful buildings, Jane Austen's romances and red-coated officers defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. Lucy Worsley digs behind the facade of Georgian elegance to reveal the fibs that helped conceal a darker side to the Regency and suppress rebellion in an age of revolution. This was the end of the Georgian era, when a mentally ill King George III was forced to hand power to his extravagant son – the prince regent and future King George IV. Both kings lived in the shadow of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon.
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