Royal Secrets

Queen Elizabeth II is the world’s oldest monarch and Britain’s longest serving Queen. This episode explores the secret of the woman who never expected to become a Queen.

Britain’s royal babies used to be born and raised behind closed palace gates. Today, they are part and parcel of the commercialisation of Britain’s Royal Family. Not so long ago, access to royal babies was restricted and they didn’t even go to school.

Princess Diana became the People’s Princess, but her marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was a largely loveless affair that saw Diana fighting the royal family she had married into.

Prince Charles is now the longest 'serving' heir to the British throne in history. He fears that he may never inherit the role he was born to. The Queen’s son stands accused of interfering and meddling in British life and the politics of a nation.

Camilla Parker Bowles was famously referred to as 'the third person' in the marriage of Charles and Diana. Her long standing affair with the heir to the throne made her one of the most famous Royal mistresses in history.

When Edward VIII abdicated, his younger brother, George, suddenly became king and 'inherited' the second world war. The father of Britain’s present queen, joined forces with Winston Churchill to stand firm against Adolf Hitler.