Lake Como 1919. The garden of Villa Marchese was once a sight to behold. Now overgrown and unloved t..

London May 1665. On a dark road outside London a simple robbery goes horribly wrong - when the gentl..

1666. The Great Plague has passed. Londoners celebrate survival in different ways. They drink. They ..

Suffolk 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician she now h..

Thornfield Hall 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr Roch..

At the age of 15 Marie Antoniette beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin is plunged in..

France eagerly awaits the day the young King Louis XV comes of age and breaks free from the rule of ..

No longer the well-beloved Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court ..

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious fami..

At just 18 Lucrezia Borgia the alluring daughter of the Pope has already had her life touched by dis..

Isabel born into the British Raj and Asha a young Hindu girl both consider India their home. Through..

SS Obersturmf?hrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front. After being badly woun..

It's the summer of 1933 and Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her sh..

'I would often wonder about my future husband. A knight? A duke? A stable boy? Of course the last wa..

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty ar..