Crown and Country

Edward Windsor travels overseas for the first in a series of Crown and Country to the Isle of Wight. He discovers that an ancestor of his was responsible for the first salvage dive below the ocean and learns how the town records for Yarmouth came to be thrown away! He also has a brush with a band of smugglers and visits Osbourne House, the family home of Queen Victoria.

Edward Windsor goes to Farnborough to find a corner of England that is forever France, and unearths the reason why Aldershot is so strongly linked with the army. We also keep with the military theme by visiting Stratfield Saye, home of the Duke of Wellington, where we find out that Queen Victoria was not amused by the temperature of the house!

Rochester was famously both the scene of the first Royal abdication and ironically the restoration of the monarchy after Cromwell. Edward Windsor discovers a curious connection between the area's most prolific author Charles Dickens, the naval dockyards at Chatham, and Queen Victoria.

The flower festival of Corpus Christi provides the backdrop as Edward Windsor investigates one of the oldest hereditary titles in the land, The Earl of Arundel. They are still responsible for organising many of England's grandest state occasions nearly one thousand years after they first held the post!

Salisbury is an area steeped in myth and legend, from Stonehenge to the top of the spire in Salisbury Cathedral. Edward Windsor follows in the footsteps of his ancestors, and discovers how many Royal connections there are with this beautiful part of the country. We also unearth a forgotten Palace, and find out why a nobleman insisted on smuggling a factory worker to England in a butt of wine!