Season 1

(2011)
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Episodes 3

1 Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince

August 29, 2011

1h

Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley looks at how the Prince Regent was obsessed with outdoing Napoleon not on the battlefield, but in opulence, bling and monumental architecture.

2 Developing the Regency Brand

September 5, 2011

1h

Lucy Worsley looks at how, under the Prince Regent's aegis, Britain celebrated Napoleon's defeat by refashioning itself in architecture and design.

3 The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade

September 13, 2011

1h

Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts.

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