Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History: Season 1

Air Date

April 8, 2013

Episodes

3 episodes

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Season 1

Episodes

Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

1. Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

April 8, 2013
60 min

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

Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

April 15, 2013
60 min

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.

Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

3. Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

April 22, 2013
60 min

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