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A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley

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A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley: Episode 3

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Episode 3

BBC Four - A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley, Episode 3

Lucy Worsley concludes her series by looking at attitudes to romance in the 20th century.

Lucy concludes her series. Out of the carnage of World War One came a racier species of romantic love, and the hedonistic era of World War Two encouraged more permissive attitudes.

Lucy Worsley concludes her series with the most dramatic transformation of romance yet. Out of the carnage of World War One came a racier species of romantic love. It could be found in the novel The Sheik, the Fifty Shades of Grey of its time, while in real life Marie Stopes urged husbands and wives to explore their sexual desire.

New entertainments like dining out for two allowed couples to get to know one another without a chaperone, while going to the cinema provided a dark environment where hands could roam free. But as the hedonistic era of World War Two encouraged these more permissive attitudes, divorce rates soared. Romance, though, would prevail, with a fightback led by the queen of romance herself, Barbara Cartland.

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Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance in our country.

Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.

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