] One particularly moving feature was the tale of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, a royal arranged marriage which turned into a love match.

It wasn't all that arranged: Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent and presumed heir to the crown of Britain, was expected to marry some Protestant princeling, but she seems to have had her choice about which one; her refusal of an earlier suitor caused all sorts of diplomatic wranglings. Her early death in childbirth caused all the Prince of Wales's younger brothers to ditch their mistresses, some of whom they'd been living happily with for years, and hastily marry Protestant princesslings. Victoria was one of the results.

] The programme went on to describe Queen Victoria's views on childbirth and experience (she made chloroform fashionable).

Did it point out the close family similarity between Victoria and Charlotte? They were first cousins, and her husband Albert was the nephew of the bereaved Leopold, who promoted the match (he'd lost his chance of being Consort with Charlotte's death, so he was having another go by proxy). Victoria would have been well aware of what had happened to her cousin.