Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for the throne of medieval Scotland where keeping it for you and your heirs meant being as effective in bed as in battle
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Episode 6 - The Return of the King
Mindful of the fate of his eldest son, in 1406 Robert attempts to smuggle his younger son James out of the country by sea. But calamity strikes and young James (who is 12) gets stu…
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Episode 5 - Band of Brothers
Len Pennie and Susan Morrison reveal how family feuds and sibling rivalry reach new levels of treachery when what's at stake is the Scottish throne.
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Episode 4 - Wives and Mistresses
Susan Morrison and Len Pennie discover that, when retaining the Scottish throne, the bedroom is just as important as the battlefield...
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Episode 3 - The Balliols Strike Back
Talk about accelerated development. Robert the Bruce's son David is already a married ‘man’ at four (his wife was a positively elderly seven-year-old), then at 5, after his father'…
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Episode 2 - Bruces and Balliols
Four executions, two life imprisonments and a corpse on trial for murder. Susan Morrison and Len Pennie discover that taking the Scottish throne is a brutal and bloody business.
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Episode 1 - Brutal Enough?
Since the 13th Century, the banner of the Scottish royal house has been a lion. From then until the Union of the Crowns in 1603, four different dynasties engaged in a seemingly end…
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Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore what it takes to be King in medieval Scotland, where ruthlessness and brutality were qualities at the top of the job description.