This episode is dedicated to the remarkable last private owner of Leeds Castle, Olive, Lady Baillie, and the sophisticated mid-20th Century style she brought to “the loveliest castle in the world”, as the historian Lord Conway called it. Althou

Episode 4: 1520 - Henry VIII at Leeds Castle en route to the Field of Cloth of Gold

Jan 31st, 2019 16m 41s

Henry VIII is in peak condition, he’s 29, sporty, good looking, charming, musical, and possibly still in a loving relationship with Catherine of Aragon. They descend on one of their treasured homes, Leeds Castle, with a party of 5,000 to prepar

Episode 3: 1321 - The Great Siege of Leeds Castle

Jan 7th, 2019 15m 45s

This third episode is packed with intrigue, violence and summary executions, capturing the turbulent few weeks when this now peaceful corner of Kent was at the epicentre of the struggle for power in England between the weak, cash-strapped Edwar

Episode 2: 1278 to 1290 - Eleanor of Castile transforms Leeds Castle into a queenly paradise

Jan 7th, 2019 20m 34s

It’s the remarkable and often overlooked Eleanor of Castile who’s the star of this episode, not her famously ruthless husband, Edward I. She not only transformed a standard Norman motte and bailey structure into the elegant castle we know today

Episode 1: 1066 to 1278 - The Normans at Leeds Castle

Jan 7th, 2019 13m 10s

In this first episode, you are invited to travel back to the time of William the Conqueror and Domesday and learn how major conflicts left their mark on the Leeds estate: Normans versus Anglo-Saxons, Stephen versus Matilda, the Crown versus the

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