Great Britain

Watch the spectacular pageants of Tsar Nicholas II — Watch the monarch ride by at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee — Witness the investiture of Prince Charles, the wedding of King Juan Carlos and many more lavish royal occasions — The assassination that started World War I — Edward VIII renouncing the throne for Mrs Simpson — King George VI and his Queen touring the blitzed streets of London, Queen Elizabeth II's coronation — Be an eye witness to the tragedies and the dramas of monarchy in the 20th Century.

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.

This programme has been designed to entertain and inform.