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Peter Snow brings alive stories from historic newspapers.
3: Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 23 March 1772. One story dominates: the passage through Parliament of George Ill's pet project-the Royal Marriages Act, which is still in force today. Peter
Snow explores the royal scandal that prompted the legislation and asks whether or not the change in the law actually damped down blue-blooded libido. And a look at the plight of a widowed lady chimney sweep. Producer Andrew Green

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