Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

Name: Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-08-29
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Lucy Worsley

201160m

★ 7.0

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Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the Regency.

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