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Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Season 1 · 3 episodes · Apr 8, 2013

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    Episode 1

    Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

    Apr 8, 2013

    Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.

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    Episode 2

    Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

    Apr 15, 2013

    Lucy takes a look at the medical histories of the later Stuarts, from the exile of James II and the succession of William and Mary to the beginnning of a new dynasty, the Hanoverians.

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    Episode 3

    Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

    Apr 22, 2013

    Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria and her descendants.