Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley
Dr Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our monarchs over the last 400 years, showing how they have always been regarded as their personal statement to their people.
Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-day Hello magazine-inspired obsession. As Dr Lucy Worsley reveals, it has always been this way. Exploring the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, Lucy shows this isn't just a public preoccupation but our monarchs' as well.
From Elizabeth I to our present Queen, Lucy believes that the royal wardrobe's significance goes way beyond the cut and colour of the clothing and that royal fashion is, and has always been, regarded as their personal statement to their people. So most monarchs have carefully choreographed every aspect of their wardrobe and, for those who have not, there have sometimes been calamitous consequences.
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"Does my bum look big in this?"
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Four Tet
Plastic People
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Seán Ó Riada
Mna Na Heireann
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Lucy Worsley |
| Producer | Nick Gillam-Smith |
| Director | Nick Gillam-Smith |
| Executive Producer | Greg Sanderson |
| Executive Producer | Lionel Mill |
Broadcasts
- Mon 7 Jul 2014 21:00
- Tue 8 Jul 2014 02:50
- Wed 9 Jul 2014 23:00
- Tue 2 Sep 2014 21:00
- Wed 3 Sep 2014 03:00
- Thu 4 Sep 2014 23:40
- Sat 21 Mar 2015 22:50
- Wed 22 Apr 2015 00:00
- Wed 10 Feb 2016 20:00
- Thu 11 Feb 2016 00:00
- Tue 7 Mar 2017 20:00
- Wed 3 Jan 2018 02:30
- Wed 3 Jan 2018 19:30
- Mon 19 Nov 2018 00:30
- Mon 6 May 2019 23:30
- Thu 4 Jul 2019 21:00
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