Private Lives

In this series, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Dr Tracy Borman, goes behind closed doors to reveal the private lives of six historical figures.  She uncovers the truth about Princess Margaret’s relationship with Peter Townsend, the secret to Napoleon’s extraordinary success and a suicide attempt he tried to cover up, and Edward VIII’s extraordinary penchant for married women.  Tracy also travels to Chicago to discover the real Al Capone, revealing the dual-personality of the world’s most infamous gangster. She heads to St Petersburg to uncover the life of Tsar Peter the Great, one of the most enlightened and yet brutal men in history, and explores Munich to discover how a failed artist became the most hated dictator in history…Adolf Hitler. (Viasat)