The BEST episodes of Monarchy season 3
Every episode of Monarchy season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Monarchy season 3!
Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series, 2004-2007, by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy (later British), from the Saxon period to modern times. The show also aired on PBS stations throughout the United States, courtesy of the television station WNET.
#1 - Survival
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/11/2006
When, in 1789, the Bastille prison in Paris was stormed and the French Revolution began, few in Britain - least of all King George III, who was recovering from one of his bouts of madness - thought that it would lead to a cataclysmic war with France.
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#2 - The Glorious Revolution
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/20/2006
Looks at the events of 1688 and its aftermath, when the unpopular Roman Catholic King James II was overthrown and his replacement with the protestant Stuart Mary and her husband William of Orange. Considers how the consequences of this was a curtailing of royal power and the basis for the constitutional monarchy and relation with parliament that exists in Britain to this day.
#3 - Empire
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/4/2006
Looks at the selection and crowning of George I as British monarch in 1714, and the events of his reign and also those of George II and George III. Considers how the breakdown in the relationship between the prime minister William Pitt and George III led to the American War of Independence and the loss of the US colonies.
#4 - Rule Britannia
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/27/2006
Looks at the end of the reign of William and Mary, and the changing relationship between Crown and Parliament, and that of Anne and the union with Scotland in 1707 which saw the emergence of Great Britain and how it grew in power.
#5 - The Return of the King
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/13/2006
Looks at the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and the reign of Charles II.