Broadcast: Monday 7th May 2018 (CBBC 2:50pm)

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Summary: A look at the deadliest dynasties and how they came to, and then held on, to power. Witness Aggrippina's deadly recipes for success and Napoleon's needy sister, how the Lancastrians and the Yorkists came together for Love Day, how to stage a Russian coup, and how our Royal Family, the Windsors, came to change their family name to something a little 'less German'.

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Sketches: 

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• Agrippina Bites: Agrippina teaches the viewer how to make a dish to die for.

• 162 Kids and Counting: Pharaoh Ramesses II has trouble keeping track of his 162 children (parody of 19 Kids and Counting).

• Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine gives a Royal Christmas Message.

• HHTV News: King Henry VI struggles to keep the peace on Love Day.

• A series of vlogs chronicles the constant heir-changing of the Tudor dynasty.

• Maria Theresa tries to figure out which of her many daughters named Maria will be Queen of France.

• Napoleon's generosity towards his family gets taken advantage of by his spendthrift sister Pauline.

• The future Queen Catherine the Great "plays" a game of Romanov takeover with her husband Peter.

• At Home with the Curies: Ève Curie invites her new boyfriend, Henry Richardson Labouisse, over to meet her obsessive Nobel Peace Prize-winning family.

• George V struggles to come up with a new, less German-sounding surname.

• Song: Qin Leader - Qin Shi Hunag was the first Chinese emperor, and while not always popular, he was perhaps one of the greatest as he started the Quin dynasty back in 200BC.

Cast & crew: See Series 7 page

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