ROYAL HISTORY’S BIGGEST FIBS WITH LUCY WORSLEY
BBC2, 9pm
BLASTING away all our romantic notions of The Regency era, which conjures up thoughts of Jane Austen love stories, soldiers defeating Napoleon at Waterloo and some beautiful buildings, this episode lays bare the lies.
The period, from the late 1700s through to the early 1800s was fraught with trouble for the royal family.
Enjoying her role of uncovering fibs, historian Lucy Worsley says: “Maintaining royal power meant distorting the story, suppressing the story, sometimes even making the story up as you went along!
“So what was really going on in the age of the Regency?”
Digging into the past, Lucy takes us on a tour of the era, which started when a mentally ill King George III was forced to hand power to his extravagant son, the future King George IV.
British radicals were demanding political reform.
So to stop a rebellion, the monarchy and the government relied on a cocktail of spin, secrets and lies. One can’t even imagine...