Narrator Alan Ereira tells the story of the Normans, how and why they came to England and the following centuries as the descendants of William the Conqueror fight for the throne they all saw as theirs.
Under House Plantagenet, England reaches the zenith of European power. They lose it all but the three Edwards strive to gain territory in Britain. Finally, the dynasty implodes in civil war between Lancaster and York.
Scotland's Stuart dynasty were handed the keys to the kingdom. What followed was tyranny, religious war and disillusion toward the very idea of monarchy.
The Hanoverians only became the new dynasty because they were Protestant and were uninterested in governing directly. Yet these German upstarts came to rule most of the world.