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Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

Episode 1: Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

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. Show more

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