Presenter Michael Buerk and chef Paul Ainsworth reimagine a dish served at a royal banquet to a grumpy Persian monarch in the early years of the 20th century. Dr Annie Gray climbs aboard the royal train to discover the luxury in which past monarchs travel...

Queen Victoria’s eldest child, Vicky, married the German Crown Prince in 1858. One year after her wedding Vicky endured a difficult birth that almost ended her life and left her baby, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, with a permanently paralysed arm.