About Kings and Queens
Mini-biographies of key British monarchs and how their actions changed history.
The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of them impacted the history: William the Conqueror, Henry II, Edward I, Henry V , Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Charles II, George III, Victoria, and to the present Queen Elizabeth II. Each 23-minute episode is filmed on location, with historian Nigel Spivey providing the narration describing bloodshed, lust and political intrigue. Actors provide mute dramatization.
Kings and Queens ran for
1 season.
Full Cast of Kings and Queens
Nigel Spivey
plays Self - Presenter (12 episodes)
Nick Brimble
plays William the Conqueror (1 episode)
Sean Francis George
plays Edward the First (1 episode)
Valentine Pelka
plays Henry the First (1 episode)
Jacinta Mulcahy
plays Queen Eleanor (1 episode)
Kate Loustau
plays Catherine Howard (1 episode)
Camilla Mathias
plays Lady in Waiting (2 episodes)
Robert Stone
plays King George the Third (1 episode)
Crew of Kings and Queens
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