A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley

Duration: 59'04''

Synopsis

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties like it is 500 years ago - discovering long-lost traditions as well as familiar customs.

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