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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。瑞秋（派珀•佩拉博 Piper Perabo 饰）终于要嫁给了青梅竹马的男友海克（马修•古迪 Matthew Goode 饰）了，海克英俊温柔体贴忠厚，深深爱着瑞秋，瑞秋以为自己也同样深深爱着海克。婚礼上，就在通往神圣婚姻的红地毯上，瑞秋不经意地向旁边一瞥时，她突然像被闪电击中一样，而她，就是花店老板露丝（琳娜•海蒂 Lena Headey 饰），负责婚礼所有的鲜花。就这样，她们在婚礼上结识，并成为了朋友。虽然瑞秋和露丝彼此爱慕，但是她已经结婚了，而且海克是那么的好，最终瑞秋选择了放弃，露丝也选择了离开。瑞秋的变化被海克看到了眼里，他想给瑞秋幸福，于是，他选择了离开。瑞秋与露丝最终能否有情人终成眷属？。
