Series 1
In a four-part series for More4, historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the royal family's long history of scandal — from suspicious deaths and sexual indiscretions to reckless spending and disastrous marriages — examining the role the press, Parliament and the public have played in generating outrage across the centuries.
01 Wealth and Opulence
47mProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb looks at stories of out-of-control spending, from Henry VIII's Field of Cloth of Gold to the extraordinary debt that George IV accrued
2023-01-30
02 Sex and Infidelity
47mSuzannah discovers the marriage scandal that put a royal in the witness box, explores what made Charles II "the merry monarch," and uncovers a sex scandal involving a brothel and a royal prince.
2023-02-06
03 Suspicious Deaths
47mSuzannah investigates some of the most notorious royal cold cases: did Elizabeth I's favourite murder his wife? Did Queen Victoria's uncle murder his valet? And was Britain's first Georgian king involved in the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish count?
2023-02-13
04 Scandalous Marriages
47mSuzannah unpacks royal marriages that proved scandalous across the centuries — from a marriage deemed so wrong it led George III to have a new law written, to the trial of the first "People's Princess," Queen Caroline, and, more recently, Princess Margaret's relationship with Peter Townsend.
2023-02-20
Who is in it
Suzannah LipscombSelf