Private Lives

A look at Queen Victoria and her relationships with her husband, Prince Albert, and eldest son, Edward.

Louis XIV, the self-styled Sun King, ruled at the height of French power for 72 years. Exploring his 'secret' second marriage, the claim that Louis bathed only three times in his entire life, and how he appeared to be almost seven feet tall.

Tracy explores the very colourful private life of Charles II. Hampton Court and Whitehall Palace provide the backdrops for a man besotted by sensuality who presided over a court obsessed by sex.

The tragic `mad' King George III and his son, the Prince Regent, hated one another. Historian Tracy Borman explores their fractious relationship.

The royal palace at Hampton Court and the Tower of London loom large in Tracy Borman's exploration of a man who was a good deal more complex than his popular image suggests.

A look at the real reason the Princess Margaret's relationship with Peter Townsend came to an end, her disastrous marriage to the manipulative, unfaithful Lord Snowdon, and her love of music and devotion to duty.