Royalty documentaries
The Platinum Jubilee Interview: Tina Brown
Award-winning writer and magazine editor Tina Brown has spent decades chronicling the British royal family.
Ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebration, she sits down with the BBC’s Special Correspondent Katty Kay, to discuss her latest book The Palace Papers; the Queen’s impact on Britain’s image both in the UK and abroad; and the challenges faced by the modern royal family.
Diana's Decades
Princess Diana: the thoroughly modern princess who both captured and transformed the spirit of the times she lived in.
This Princess Diana documentary tells the story of how, over three decades, she changed not just the monarchy but the press and the very nature of celebrity as she went from shy fairytale bride to global icon.
Young Victoria
She is now one of the most recognizable monarchs in British Royal history. But Queen Victoria’s path to the throne was by no means easy.
As this BBC royal history documentary reveals, Britain in the 1830s was on the brink of revolution. Victoria was seen as a deterrent to this, but there were those determined to grab power for themselves.
How did Victoria’s scheming mother complicate her ascent?
Elizabeth I and II: The Golden Queens
This fascinating royal history documentary explores the parallels between Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II. Both became monarch at 25 but what unites and what divides them? Historians analyse the moments that define their reigns. Despite the centuries between them, could they share any surprising characteristics?
Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King
Historians examine newly discovered sources relating to the Duke of Windsor, the former king who renounced the throne to marry Wallace Simpson. This revelatory Edward VIII documentary explores his life after abdication, his connections with the Nazi Party, and evidence that he encouraged Germany to bomb the UK into submission during World War Two so he could regain the throne.