The Crown tells the true stories behind the monarchs who shaped the world. Each episode, host Nirob takes one king, one queen, or one dynasty — Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Victoria, the last tsar — and rebuilds it: the monarch and the people around them, the reign, the crisis, and the legacy they left.

From the pharaohs of Egypt to the emperors of China, from the sun king of France to the Romanovs of Russia, from the Mughals of India to the sultans of the Ottomans, The Crown is about the strange, dramatic, and consequential history of royalty — how monarchs ruled, how they fell, and why we are still fascinated by the crown. Meticulously researched, honest about what is documented and what is legend. Clean and suitable for all ages. A new story every week