1 Season
12 Episode
Kings and Queens
Mini-biographies of key British monarchs and how their actions changed history.
The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of them impacted the history: William the Conqueror, Henry II, Edward I, Henry V , Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Charles II, George III, Victoria, and to the present Queen Elizabeth II. Each 23-minute episode is filmed on location, with historian Nigel Spivey providing the narration describing bloodshed, lust and political intrigue. Actors provide mute dramatization.
- Year: 2002
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Channel 5
- Keyword: biography, reenactment, british history
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- Cast: Nigel Spivey