Episodes
Old Glad Eyes
February 13, 1983
Whilst Englishmen were being murdered in Dublin, the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, was being tailed by police around London's brothels.
Underdog
February 20, 1983
The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.
A Woman of Style
February 27, 1983
During the First World War, while the Prime Minister David Lloyd George was busy fighting his generals as well as the Germans, his wife Margaret and his mistress Frances Stevenson were fighting their own battle at Number 10.
The Iron Duke
March 6, 1983
Despite the Duke of Wellington's enormous popularity, he incurred the nation's wrath by appearing to sympathise with the Irish Catholics. His reputation was also damaged by rumours of his friendship with Harriet Arbuthnot.
The Asquiths
March 13, 1983
Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.
Dizzy
March 20, 1983
Disraeli, the master diplomat and favourite of Queen Victoria, at the age of seventy-three entertains beautiful and aristocratic sisters at Number 10.
Bloodline
March 27, 1983
William Pitt the Younger struggles against his fate - familial lunacy - while trying to govern the country and court the beautiful Eleanor Eden.
