Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

BBC Four HD

2:10 AM to 3:10 AM

Wednesday 5 March

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The historian examines how key moments in Britain's history have been manipulated and mythologised, beginning with a look at the founding myths of the Reformation. She argues that Henry VIII may have had deeper motives for bringing about a religious and political schism than his desire for a divorce, and in doing so, laid the foundations for our modern constitution and economic power as an empire. She also questions the monarch's supposed belief in Martin Luther's Protestant revolution