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Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1020 min.
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR

Season 3 (Nov. 13, 2006, midnight)

Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series, 2004-2006, by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy from the Saxon period to modern times. The show also aired on PBS stations throughout the United States, courtesy of PBS-member station WNET. In Australia, all four seasons were broadcast on ABC1 from May 2005 onwards.

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Season 3 (Nov. 13, 2006, midnight)

Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series, 2004-2006, by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy from the Saxon period to modern times. The show also aired on PBS stations throughout the United States, courtesy of PBS-member station WNET. In Australia, all four seasons were broadcast on ABC1 from May 2005 onwards.

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Nov. 13, 2006, midnight 0.0

S3E1 - The Return of the King

Looks at the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and the reign of Charles II.
Nov. 20, 2006, midnight 0.0

S3E2 - The Glorious Revolution

Looks at the events of 1688 and its aftermath, when the unpopular Roman Catholic King James II was overthrown and his replacement with the protestant Stuart Mary and her husband William of Orange. Considers how the consequences of this was a curtailing of royal power and the basis for the constitutional monarchy and relation with parliament that exists in Britain to this day.
Nov. 27, 2006, midnight 0.0

S3E3 - Rule Britannia

Looks at the end of the reign of William and Mary, and the changing relationship between Crown and Parliament, and that of Anne and the union with Scotland in 1707 which saw the emergence of Great Britain and how it grew in power.
Dec. 4, 2006, midnight 0.0

S3E4 - Empire

Looks at the selection and crowning of George I as British monarch in 1714, and the events of his reign and also those of George II and George III. Considers how the breakdown in the relationship between the prime minister William Pitt and George III led to the American War of Independence and the loss of the US colonies.
Dec. 11, 2006, midnight 0.0

S3E5 - Survival

When, in 1789, the Bastille prison in Paris was stormed and the French Revolution began, few in Britain - least of all King George III, who was recovering from one of his bouts of madness - thought that it would lead to a cataclysmic war with France.
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Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1020 min.
Released: Oct. 17, 2004
Last Air Date: Dec. 26, 2007, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR

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