The Glorious Revolution Monarchy by David Starkey : Season 3 Episode 2
Channel 4 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: November 20th, 2006 @ 12:00 AM EST on Channel 4
Looks at the events of 1688 and its aftermath, when the unpopular Roman Catholic King James II was overthrown and his replacement with the protestant Stuart Mary and her husband William of Orange. Considers how the consequences of this was a curtailing of royal power and the basis for the constitutional monarchy and relation with parliament that exists in Britain to this day.