The Real Versailles

Producer and Director

Executive Producer: Eamon Hardy
Commissioner: Kim Shillinglaw
Editor: Jude Robson

As BBC TWO premieres its lavish new period drama set in the sumptuous surroundings of Versailles, historians Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor tell the real-life stories behind Louis XIV and the world’s grandest building.

Using original letters and memoirs, daily records from the running of the palace, contemporary paintings of Louis’ exploits as well as the rituals of court life, Lucy and Helen reveal in vivid detail the colourful world of sex, drama and intrigue that Louis XIV and his courtiers inhabited.