The Windsors: A Royal Family

  • Rank #
  • Premiered: Nov 1994
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
I'm Damned if I'm an Alien
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1994
Discover how completely King George V and his advisors transformed the royal house of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha into the House of Windsor, when the family's German heritage became a serious public relations liability.
1x2
Brothers at War
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1994
Go behind the sensationalism and sentimentality of the story of Edward VIII and his 1936 abdication to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
1x3
Image of a Queen
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 1994
Follow the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and see how, beginning with her televised coronation in 1953, the Queen and her family made shrewd use of the media to maintain the aura of the popularity of the monarchy.
1x4 Show finale
Family Affair
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 1994
In the 1990s, the monarchy plunged from general approval into disarray, brought down by the very forces it had used to promote itself. Historians ask whether and how the House of Windsor might reinvent itself in the new millennium.

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