The Broad Chronicles

We're back after a brief hiatus! In this episode, we're taking a look at the life of Jacquetta of Luxembourg. She was mother to Elizabeth Woodville, grandmother to Elizabeth of York, great-grandmother to Henry VIII, and her descendants still hold royal thrones to this day. She found herself in the throes of the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses, accusations of witchcraft, court politics and...

This is the final episode in my coverage of Queen Victoria! We pick up where we left off: the death of Albert and Victoria's isolation and seclusion as she mourns the love of her life. This section of her reign arguably sees the most drastic and significant changes--the British Crown comes in possession of India, eight of Victoria's nine children marry into royal or noble families across Europe, a...

We pick up the coverage of Queen Victoria in this episode of the Broad Chronicles. Victoria was born in 1819, the third child of her mother, and the first legitimate child of her father, Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent. Her father passed away when she was only 8 months old, leaving Victoria in the care of her mother and his former equerry Sir John Conroy. Victoria was raised in extremely sheltered...

On this episode of the Broad Chronicles, I got a little over ambitious and decided to cover Queen Victoria, and well, that one episode has turned into three. In this particular section, we look at the circumstances of Victoria's birth (which end up being very similar to her cousin Charlotte, from episode 1) all the way up to Victoria's coronation as queen. Queen Victoria was born under similar cir...

On the very first episode of the Broad Chronicles, we cover the would-be queen of the United Kingdom, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. Charlotte was the only daughter of the Prince Regent, later George IV, and his estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Born of her father's need for debt relief funds and the nation's need for an heir, Charlotte was a firecracker of a young woman who found herse...

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