Royal Secrets - Documentary Series ( 1996 )

Royal Secrets – SE01 EP12 – Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death An affair with a queen could be an affair to remember, if you survived. France’s Marguerite of[…]

A royal affair could be a dangerous liaison. Anne Boleyn flirted with Henry VIII and lost her head. England’s Princess[…]

Folly When monarchs erred, they erred on a grand scale. Queen Adelaide of Sicily married a cad and was conned[…]

Bizarre When the love of his life died, Henry III of France went on a binge of free spending,[…]

Murderers Ivan the Terrible killed more people than any monarch in history — hundreds with his own hands, and enjoyed[…]

Glory Elizabeth I ushered in England’s age of glory, yet sacrificed herself in the bargain. Louis XIV gave Europe its[…]

Law and Disorder In trying to bring justice to England, Henry II brought about one of history’s most infamous murders.[…]

Dynasty Sometimes keeping power is harder than getting it. The Normans triumphed on the battlefield but were undone by Mother[…]

Impostors Britons believed Richard III had murdered his two nephews in the Tower of London, until one of them came[…]

Assassins Good King Wenceslas unfortunately had a wicked brother. The ingenious killers of England’s Edward II left no trace of[…]