Monarchy Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - A Nation StateDr David Starkey begins his history of the British monarchy in the violence and chaos of the dark ages. There from a legendary world peopled by dragons and monsters a uniquely English idea of monarchy emerged, which was able to stand firm in the face of the Viking invasions. In this programme Dr Starkey tells the dramatic story of the creation of England and the triumph of an English hero, Alfred the Great.
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Episode 2 - AenglalandIn this programme Dr David Starkey chronicles the stormy path of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, the world’s first nation state. He tells how, assailed by blitzkrieg from the Danes of King Canute, it survived to take its captor captive; and how, driven by civil strife, it nonetheless restored itself to power until through a historic misfortune, it fell in the end to the knights of William the Conqueror.
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Episode 3 - ConquestThe Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest are perhaps the most memorable events in English history. In this programme Dr David Starkey follows the fortunes of English and Normans alike as the direction of English kingship takes a radical new turn. From the devastation of the initial Norman conquest, through the intrigues and murder of King William II, to the civil war in the reign of King Stephen, ‘when God and his angels slept’, Dr Starkey illuminates the experience of a turbulent time which changed the course of English history.
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Episode 4 - DynastyIn this stirring programme Dr David Starkey profiles a mediaeval superstar, King Henry II of England, whose dominion stretched from the moors of Scotland to the foothills of the Pyrenees, including more than half of modern France. And he tells some of the most dramatic and significant stories of English history: the bitter tale of his conflict with Archbishop Thomas Becket, which ended in Becket’s murder; the struggle for our liberties in Magna Carta; and the beginnings of our modern parliamentary system.
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Episode 5 - A United KingdomIn this programme Dr. David Starkey looks at a century which saw the reigns of three Edwards: father, son and grandson. Edward I took the image and might of the English monarchy to new heights. He was the new Caesar; a man who would begin unite England, Wales and Scotland into one kingdom. All his achievements almost came to nothing during his son's disastrous reign which ended in abdication and murder. It would take the third Edward to rebuild the prestige of the English monarch. With his victory against the French at Crecy Edward III made England great again but also plunged her into a war with France which would last one hundred years.
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Episode 6 - Death of a DynastyIn this programme Dr. David Starkey tells the real story of Shakespeare's kings: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. It starts with the usurpation and murder of Richard II and ends in a bloody civil war in which the English royal house tears itself apart. The last medieval kings see the institution of monarchy reach a crisis point in which its future seems far from certain.
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