TV Show Details
Air Date:June 24th, 2002
Last Air Date:September 9th, 2002
Network:5
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Production Companies:3BM Television
Kings and Queens (2002)
TV Show5
Documentary
"Mini-biographies of key British monarchs and how their actions changed history."
StarringNigel Spivey
Plot
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.