Ængla Land Monarchy by David Starkey : Season 1 Episode 2
Channel 4 1h 00m
Aired: October 25th, 2004 @ 12:00 AM EST on Channel 4
In episode two of Monarchy Dr. Starkey chronicles the stormy path of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, the world's first nation state. He tells how, assailed by blitzkrieg from the Danes of King Canute, it survived to take its captor captive; and how, driven by civil strife, it nonetheless restored itself to power until through a historic misfortune, it fell in the end to the knights of William the Conqueror.
