{"id":4192,"date":"2025-10-17T02:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-forbidden-royal-wedding-wiped-from-history-bbc-timestamp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:37:50","slug":"the-forbidden-royal-wedding-wiped-from-history-bbc-timestamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-forbidden-royal-wedding-wiped-from-history-bbc-timestamp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forbidden Royal Wedding Wiped From History | BBC Timestamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0wOTuzXl7E?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1785, Prince George \u2013 future King George IV \u2013 secretly married Maria Fitzherbert, a twice-widowed Catholic. But the marriage was illegal. Why did he hide it from the King and Parliament? Join Lucy<br \/>\nWorsley as she uncovers how this forbidden union nearly triggered a royal crisis that could have changed the course of British history.<\/p>\n<p>This clip is from Royal History\u2019s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020). Watch on BBC iPlayer: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/m000fj9f\/royal-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley<\/p>\n<p>#RoyalHistory #BritishMonarchy #RoyalWedding #GeorgeIV #Scandal<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:\u00a0https:\/\/bbc.in\/4b7tZxt<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWelcome to BBC Timestamp, your home for all things history. Shed new light on the past by unveiling hidden worlds throughout time, dig into the fascinating true stories behind legendary myths, and learn about cutting-edge technologies helping to rethink stories from across the ages.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: https:\/\/www.bbcstudios.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0wOTuzXl7E\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1785, Prince George \u2013 future King George IV \u2013 secretly married Maria Fitzherbert, a twice-widowed Catholic. But the marriage was illegal. Why did he hide it from the King and Parliament? Join Lucy Worsley as she uncovers how this forbidden union nearly triggered a royal crisis that could have changed the course of British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150678,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8597,8598,15,7093,2742,8599,8604,21,8602,8594,8606,8601,8603,193,1199,5753,8210,8595,2201,7529,2754,8600,8596,7092,8605],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-18th-century-britain","tag-act-of-settlement","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-timestamp","tag-british-monarchy","tag-british-royal-family-scandal","tag-british-royal-weddings","tag-documentary","tag-forbidden-royal-wedding","tag-george-iv","tag-george-iv-and-maria-fitzherbert","tag-george-iv-secret-marriage","tag-hidden-royal-history","tag-history","tag-history-channel","tag-lucy-worsley","tag-lucy-worsley-history","tag-maria-fitzherbert","tag-prince-of-wales","tag-rethinking-history","tag-royal-history","tag-royal-succession-crisis","tag-secret-royal-wedding","tag-timestamp","tag-uk-monarchy-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}