Sunday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

Repeats Monday, Sept. 14, at 12:30 a.m.

In this newly completed documentary special, Lucy Worsley, royal historian and chief curator of England’s Historic Royal Palaces, invites viewers on an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. But even for these formidable buildings, these are unprecedented times. For the first time in centuries, these beloved sites are closed to the public because of the global pandemic.

Filmed with a skeleton crew under stringent health protocols, ROYAL PALACE SECRETS offers viewers a uniquely intimate tour of these magnificent structures, currently emptied of visitors and staff. Worsley takes viewers inside the forbidding Tower of London, glorious Hampton Court and treasure-filled Kensington Palace, going beyond the velvet ropes into each building’s most secret places to uncover how each palace shaped a monarchy and a nation.