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- A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
- The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.
- The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
- Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
- Nick learns how the discovery of a crack in the ceiling of one of Britain's grandest palaces led to a huge conservation project. He also sees how a precious coronation dress is restored.
- The race continues in London where teams try to win an Express Pass, but some pairs chances are capsized while boating in a punt in Oxford, England.
- Michael Portillo begins underground at Big Pit coal mine in Blaenavon, where he discovers how Victorians toiled night and day to power the Industrial Revolution. On the River Usk, he learns about 19th-century developments in angling before heading to Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire - once the scene of a farm labourers' dispute that ended in rioting. Michael concludes this leg of his journey at Blenheim Palace.