Monarchy: Set 2

See how events in bedrooms and on the battlefield helped shape Britain! With a deft blend of disciplined scholarship and dramatic fl air, Dr. David Starkey continues his epic and entertaining documentary on English royal rule. In Set 2, you?ll meet lusty, cagey Charles II, who sired 17 illegitimate children while outmaneuvering his political opponents; austere William of Orange, whom Parliament invited to conquer England; pragmatic Anne, whose unpopular marriage brought her great happiness; George I, the formerly obscure German prince who never learned English but founded a lasting dynasty; and Victoria, the untested, 18-year-old who gradually reinvented the monarchy as a model for middle-class morality. Hosted by England?s most passionate historian, as seen on PBS.

Queen Anne had at least 18 pregnancies. She gave birth to five children who all died before the age of twelve. Hence the end of the Stuart line.