Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores royal scandals and the roles the press, parliament and public have played over the centuries in generating the outrage that surrounds them.
EPISODE 1
Wealth And Opulence
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the royal scandals that rose from excessive spending, from Henry VIII's Field of the Cloth of Gold to the extraordinary debt that George IV accrued.
EPISODE 2
And Infidelity
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discovers the marriage scandal that put a royal in the witness box. She also investigates why Charles II was named `the merry monarch' and uncovers a sex scandal involving a prince and a brothel.
EPISODE 3
Suspicious Deaths
Suzannah Lipscomb investigates whether Queen Victoria's uncle killed his valet and whether the strange disappearance of a Swedish count had some involvement from the UK's first Georgian king.
EPISODE 4
Scandalous Marriages
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the most scandalous royal marriages from the past. From the marriage deemed so wrong that it led George III to write a new law, to Queen Caroline, who was put on trial by her husband George IV.
Murder
Suzannah Lipscomb examines four suspected royal murder cases spanning almost 1000 years, including the infamous disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, and more.
Sex
Suzannah Lipscomb looks into four sex scandals that dragged reputations through the gutter, and investigates whether 13-year-old King James VI of Scotland was groomed by his uncle.
Suzannah Lipscomb
Kirsty Seger
Mark Ball
Clare Hollywood
Steve Regan
