Great Houses with Julian Fellowes — Season 1

Julian Fellowes takes us on a journey to discover the real people behind two of Britain's most incredible houses, Burghley House and Goodwood House. In this compelling two-part factual series Julian plays detective and unearths the houses' amazing history, both through the lives of those that owned them and those that served in them. They are the stories of the real Lady Marys and Lord Granthams, the real Bates and Anna.

At Goodwood House in Sussex, for 300 years the home of the Dukes of Richmond, Julian discovers the story of how the house and the family owe their existence to a love affair between King Charles and a French spy.He uncovers an unpublished memoir written by a ladies maid in the 1920s and looks into the goings on at the house parties thrown for King Edward VII