Where To Stream Hidden Treasures of the National Trust Season 3 Episode 2
The Nude in the Attic
- Aired May 16, 2025
- 58 Min
The compelling and sometimes scandalous family stories behind two very different National Trust houses are revealed. In Knole House, the sprawling Tudor ancestral seat of the Sackville family, a life-size nude statue of 18th-century ballet dancer Giovana Zanerini, commissioned by her lover John Frederick, is being conserved to slow the aging process and restore her legendary looks. Two other heirlooms at Knole - a set of 400-year-old rolled-up animal skin parchments - are so delicate that they...