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The last time Paul Burrell saw Princess Diana was sixteen days before Paris, waving from the back of a car at the Kensington Palace gates. Almost every account of that fortnight gets the dates wrong.
The new documentary is live now. Princess Diana's Last Interview, What She Told Her Butler That Week.
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George V and Queen Mary had six children. Most people can name two of them.
The new documentary is now live on the channel. The 6 Children of King George V and How Every One of Them Ended follows all six from the same nursery to six separate endings, including the youngest son, whose story is not quite the one usually told about him.
Around 50 minutes, and grounded throughout in the published biographies rather than the folklore.
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A new documentary is now live on the channel.
Lord Mountbatten was the man Prince Charles called the grandfather he never had. For thirty years he shaped nearly every major decision the future king made about marriage, career and duty. This film examines what sat beneath that friendship, drawing on Andrew Lownie's research, Philip Ziegler's authorised biography, and the declassified FBI file.
Around forty minutes. Best watched with a cup of tea and no interruptions.
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The new documentary is now live.
This one covers the last 48 hours of Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral, from the photograph taken in the drawing room on the 6th of September 2022 to what the household saw two days later. It took a great deal of care to put together, and I hope you find it worth your time.
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Prince George, Duke of Kent, is remembered in a single sentence: the handsome fourth son, the wartime martyr who died in uniform in 1942. The private record tells a longer story. This film traces the addiction his family cured behind closed doors, the letters the Palace paid to recover, and the flying boat that struck a Caithness hillside on the twenty-fifth of August, 1942, killing fifteen of the sixteen men aboard. The inquiry blamed the pilot. Nothing further was ever explained.
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To everyone who has been watching, thank you. This channel exists because of you.
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The newest one is live now: The 6 Habits Queen Elizabeth II Followed Every Day for 70 Years. Six routines, 70 years, and one final red box at Balmoral.
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A new documentary is now live on the channel.
This week we follow five generations of the Pulitzer family: the 17 year old who arrived in New York as a paid substitute soldier, the newspaper he built into the most read in America, the court case his sons brought to break his will, and the sale that ended the family's newspapers for good. The prize outlived everything they created.
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New video's up, this one traces Empress Sisi's four children through the losses that shaped the Habsburg dynasty: a daughter who died in her mother's arms, a son whose death at Mayerling stayed sealed in the archives for over sixty years, and the two daughters whose very different lives outlasted them both.
If you're a fan of royal history with real depth behind it, I think you'll enjoy this one. Head over to the channel to watch, and if you haven't subscribed yet, now's a great time to join us for more stories like this.
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In 1909, a private syndicate bought 47,000 acres of dry valley floor, 4 years before the city's water reached it. The men behind it also owned the newspaper that told Los Angeles how to vote.
This week's film follows the Chandler dynasty from that purchase to the sale that ended it, and asks how a family whose name meant Los Angeles itself disappeared so completely.
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A new documentary is now live on the channel.
This week I tell the story of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes Lyon, two women from one of Britain's grandest families who were quietly placed in a Surrey institution in 1941 and later recorded as dead in the pages of Burke's Peerage, while both were still very much alive. It is a story about privilege, silence, and a record that took forty years to correct.
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