Great Britain

The Glittering Crowns presents a vivid tapestry of colorful and stirring events in which pomp and pageantry are interwoven with human stories of achievement, crisis and failure. This is a unique visual record of monarchy in a turbulent century.

Watch the spectacular pageants of Tsar Nicholas II. Watch the monarch ride by at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Watch the investiture of Prince Charles, the wedding of King Juan Carlos and many more lavish royal occasions. Be an eyewitness to the tragedies and the dramas of monarchy in the 20th Century: The assassination that started World War I, the brutal murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles, Edward VIII renouncing the throne for Mrs Simpson, King Boris of Bulgaria making terms with Adolf Hitler, actual wartime resistance film of King Christian X of Denmark, King George VI and his Queen touring the blitzed streets of London, Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

This programme has been designed to entertain and inform.