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Lucy Worsley

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whitewave Sun 24-Jan-16 21:55:19

I love the colours she wears. DH thinks she is sex on legs.

Luckygirl Sun 24-Jan-16 21:43:40

I do find her a bit twee to be honest.

LullyDully Sun 24-Jan-16 20:40:03

That is her manner.She always reminds me of a school games captain. She is very knowledgeable.

I think she is appealing to older men . My brother of 70 thinks she is wonderful........her and Victoria Coren Mitchell. I have spoken to other similar men who think she is great.!!!!!Must be the hair clips.

I have found the programme very interesting. I didn't know a lot about Catherine the Great. Seem to remember learning about Peter the Great as I went to college in Deptford where he learned about ship building.

Haven't caught up with the one on the revolution this week. This is an area of history I am quite familiar with.

Stansgran Sun 24-Jan-16 20:31:18

There is a new sebag montefiore book on the Romanovs reviewed today in the Sundays . Lucy W didn't really touch on the mad doings. I enjoyed the programmes especially seeing places I probably will not visit. I do get tired of historians back views going somewhere . There was one historian that made me wonder if the cameraman had a boot fetish as he concentrated all his skills on following her boots around.

Alea Sun 24-Jan-16 20:07:34

She is undoubtedly an accomplished historian, but this series on the Romanovs is trying my patience.
First of all, does she have to talk down to us as if we were children, does she have to say RomANov with the stress on the middle syllable, does she have to play act and does she have to pretend to be excited /surprised/ shocked at the action described in her faux naive way?
I am sure Sebag-Montefiore, or Dan Snow or even Scottish Neil Oliver could do it much better.