The Bedroom

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Episode 3 of 4

Duration: 1 hour

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, focuses on the bedroom - a room which people now think of as one of the most private in the house and yet started for most as a noisy, busy communal space. From spending the night in a Tudor farmhouse to recreating a bedtime 'bundling' courtship ritual, and from being publicly dressed as Queen Caroline in Hampton Court to experiencing the glamour of the 1930s boudoir, Lucy discovers that birth, marriage and death have all played a big part in the story of the bedroom.

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Credits

Series Producer
Emma Hindley
Presenter
Lucy Worsley
Executive Producer
Dan Adamson
Executive Producer
Daisy Goodwin

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