Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, the producer and audio editor is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.

In 1128 an enraged princess arrived here. Her name was Matilda and she was the only surviving legitimate child of King Henry I of England and his acknowledged heir. Her father had commanded her to ...

One of England's most tragic regal figures ... victim of the chicanery of the Tudor court in the chaotic aftermath of Henry VIII’s reign. She is perhaps best-known from Paul Delaroche’s ...