Royal Upstairs Downstairs

Mondays, July 18 at 7.30pm on THE HISTORY CHANNEL

Following in Queens Victoria’s footstep on her Royal Progress throughout her 63 reign -intrepid experts Tim Wonnacott and Rosemary Shrager head to respective upstairs and downstairs quarters of some of the most beautiful houses in Great Britain, to see what life was like for servants and guests in finery alike during the Royal visit… It was a time steeped in tradition – yet also one of unparalleled industrial, political and social change. We reveal everything from how they polished the brass, re-built the garden, made asparagus ice-cream and cleaned the tapestry and arrived in splendour.

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