Mysteries at the Castle

- Season 3

(2016)

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Epic tales from castles around the world are unveiled, including the conspiracy in Paris that brought down the Knights Templar and a wizard's curse upon the Fyvie Castle in Scotland.

The dramatic origins of the Christmas carol, go back to a citadel in Prague; within an opulent Parisian palace, a doomed painter uses art for salvation; and a jealous butler learns a dangerous secret at an idyllic English estate.

The origins of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are found in a German palace; within a Floridian fort, an imprisoned doctor battles a deadly virus; an antiques dealer traces a mummified head to a King born at a French chateau.

William Wallace's demise is traced back to a fortress in England; at a chateau in the Czech Republic, the legendary Casanova suffers from a broken heart; in the shadow of a Danish stronghold, an astronomer meets an untimely end.

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Bonnie Prince Charlie, leader of the Jacobite Uprising, escapes imprisonment in Dunstaffnage Castle in Oban, Scotland, and flees the country, disguised him as a maid-servant, with help from his supporter Flora MacDonald. After being in debt by building fairy tale castles, the eccentric King Ludwig II is forced out of his beloved Neuschwanstein Castle in Schwangau, Germany when he is certified as mad by Dr. Bernhard von Gudden. Dunrobin Castle in Golspie, Scotland, is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Margaret, the Earl of Sutherland's daughter, after an attempt ...

A valuable diamond is stolen from a remote French chateau, a monstrous Italian fortress is home to a twisted tyrant and an English manor reveals a harrowing case of the occult that isn't what it seems.

"The Wolf of Badenoch", the nickname given to medieval Scottish nobleman, Alexander Stewart, whose terrible reign of pillage and slaughter leads to a legend that he played chess with the Devil for his soul in Ruthven Barracks - presented by Dr Leo Ruickbie. Angered by the Swedish king's progressive liberalism, Jacob Johan Anckarström assassinates Gustav III at a masquerade ball: Gustav III's Pavilion in Solna becomes his final resting place. Mount Helena in Rolling Fork, Mississippi was once home to a young woman named Helen who lost her fiancé Henry in a duel a week ...

An aging singer gives the performance of a lifetime at a Spanish citadel, an ominous Italian castle conceals the murderous plot of a lonely countess and a charming English estate was the scene of a scintillating literary hoax.

A pair of lovers imprisoned at an English fortress go on to transform Australia, a Portugese palace is the site of forbidden romance and murder, and a trailblazing invention gets its name from a stately American mansion.

The victims of a crazed witch hunt are imprisoned at an English castle, a sprawling palace is home to two royals who helped form modern-day Spain and two schemers plot the murder of a millionaire living in a Texas mansion.

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