Banquets and bloody divorces: Britain’s most extravagant monarchs

Queen Anne, as seen in The Favourite, had expensive tastes – lobster-racing doesn’t come cheap. But other royals gave her a run for her moneyThe reign of Queen Anne, like most of the 18th century, used to be ignored – a dull period in between the Glorious Revolution and the Napoleonic war. Now, suddenly, thanks to Yorgos Lanthimos’s startling film The Favourite and Olivia Colman’s portrayal of the capricious, rabbit-loving, lesbian queen, she is everywhere.Her lates