Documentary series providing an insight into the life and work of the Queen and Royal Family over the course of a year. Discover how the Royal Family fulfills its duties at home and abroad.

Andrew Marr presents this documentary about Queen Elizabeth II, celebrating her 60th year as the British monarch. The programme offers an insight into her life and work, following her for a year and a half as she carries out her royal duties and featuring input from those closest to her including Princes William and Harry, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the Princess Royal and the Duke of York, as well as David Cameron, Tony Blair and many more.

Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Lord Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams of the day he'll have his vengeance. A wild daughter. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Disdaining her father's snobbishness - and his wrath - the couple flees to London. Giovanni and Laura arrive to a city that has not yet re-awoken after the traumas of war. Facing destitution,...

When the Queen ascended the throne in 1953 at the age of 25, Britain was a very different nation. In this vital history, Andrew Marr tells the story of modern Britain through the people who shaped it: from Sylvia Plath to Elvis Costello, Frank Critchlow to Bob Geldof, Zaha Hadid to James Dyson, David Attenborough to the Beatles. How did our activists, our innovators, our artists, our every-kind-of-mover-and-shaker define and progress this new Elizabethan...

The royal family is the original 'Coronation Street' - a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have become celebrities, like upmarket versions of film stars and footballers. But they have also become a byword for arrogance, entitlement, hypocrisy and indifference to the gigantic amount of public money wasted by them. The monarchy itself is an important part of our constitution with considerable influence...

Constantly under scrutiny ever since she took the throne, this title presents a balanced and absorbing account of the Queen's life and of her role as the head of state in a country and a world that have changed almost beyond recognition in the 60 years since she inherited the throne.

The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period in their own right: neither the stultifying 'high' Fifties nor the liberating 'high' Sixties, but instead an action-packed, sometimes dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape.