To accompany the BBC's drama about the French court, BBC aired the documentary
The Real Versailles, where historians Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor
tell the real-life stories behind one of the world's grandest buildings, revealing in vivid detail the colourful world of sex, drama and
intrigue that Louis XIV and his courtiers inhabited to explain how he became the longest serving absolute monarch in European history.
Lucy Worsley untangles Louis XIV's complex world of court etiquette, fashion and feasting, while court politics expert Helen Castor examines the Machiavellian world that Louis created and inhabited.
