Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency - Season 1

First aired: 8/29/2011 3 episodes

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Episodes

1. Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince

Aired: 8/29/2011

Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley looks at how the Prince Regent was obsessed with outdoing Napoleon not on the battlefield, but in opulence, bling and monumental architecture.

2. Developing the Regency Brand

Aired: 9/5/2011

Lucy Worsley looks at how, under the Prince Regent's aegis, Britain celebrated Napoleon's defeat by refashioning itself in architecture and design.

3. The Many and the Few - A Divided Decade

Aired: 9/13/2011

Lucy Worsley examines a world turned upside down by change, as the Prince Regent's excesses provoke riots, political unrest and assassination attempts.