Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
In the final episode of his series on the breathtaking treasures of the Royal Collection, Andrew Graham-dixon meets the Prince of Wales and explores the last 150 years – when, as he puts it, “women took charge” and used art to help steer the monarchy through times of turbulent change. It’s also a period in which the Royal family’s changing tastes, from Fabergé eggs to the Queen Mother’s more “daring” art acquisitions, neatly demonstrate “the determined emergence of a modern monarchy”. GO