Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
Season 1
20113 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince
7.02011-08-29 · 60m
Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley looks at how the Prince Regent was obsessed with outdoing Napoleon not on the battlefield, but in opulence, bling and monumental architecture.
- E2
Developing the Regency Brand
6.02011-09-05 · 60m
Lucy Worsley looks at how, under the Prince Regent's aegis, Britain celebrated Napoleon's defeat by refashioning itself in architecture and design.
- E3
The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade
7.02011-09-13 · 60m
Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts.
