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Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces: Episode 1: Towards an Architecture of Majesty

Towards an Architecture of Majesty

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Episode 1: Towards an Architecture of Majesty

Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces

BBC Four - Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces, Towards an Architecture of Majesty

Dan Cruickshank reveals the buildings which cemented the monarch's claim to the throne.

From the Tower of London to Hampton Court Palace, Dan Cruickshank reveals a story of buildings which cemented the monarch's claim to the throne.

Royal palaces are the most magnificent buildings in our history. Often built to extraordinary levels of luxury and excess, they express the personalities of our kings and queens since 1066.

From the Tower of London to Hampton Court Palace, Dan Cruickshank reveals an extraordinary story of buildings, often fortified, that cemented the monarch's claim to the throne. Palaces reveal our monarchs like no other buildings - their taste for luxury, their fear of the mob, even their relationship with God. Palaces have been caught up in some of the most dramatic events in history - some survive in all their magnificence like Hampton Court while others have vanished from the surface of the earth as completely as if they'd never existed.

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Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building.

From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many have vanished and the magic of the ones that survive.

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