Tales from the Royal Bedchamber, BBC Four, July 2013

In the summer of 2013, all the world went mad for a royal baby.  But this obsession with the birth of an heir to the throne has a very long history, and in fact – now that the monarchy wields less political power than it did – the stakes are much lower today.  Tying in with the Hampton Court exhibition ‘Secrets of the Royal Bedchamber’, this one-off programme for BBC Four covered the history of what happened in the royal bed and bedchamber covered childbirth, politics, mistresses, procreation but also interior decoration and the history of design.