Conspirators and conquerors: A dirty business -- The Normans -- Unholy alliances -- The Plantagenets Part I -- Crusading kings and troublesome barons -- The Plantagenets Part II -- Lovers, land and treason -- The Plantagenets Part III -- Insanity, civil war and child murder -- The Plantagenets part IV -- Conspiracy and bloodshed -- The Tudors Part I -- Decapitation and divorce -- The Tudors Part II -- Turmoil, terror and fatal illness -- The Tudors Part III -- Gloriana and gore -- The Tudors Part IV -- Roundheads and regicide -- The Stuarts Part I -- The not-so-merry monarchy -- The Stuarts Part II -- Mistresses and madness -- The Hanoverians Part I -- Battle royal -- The Hanoverians Part II -- Scandal behind closed doors -- The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha -- A loose canon -- The Windsors Part I -- A modern monarchy? -- The Windsors Part II.