The king was crowned aged four in 1643, and remained on the throne until his death in 1715.
Period drama fans planning on watching new offering Versailles en famille may want to think again after previews revealed it to be one of the BBC’s raunchiest commissions yet.
Wolstencroft, who wrote the series with Helen Mirren’s nephew Simon, told The Telegraph that Versailles is a “sophisticed and elevated piece of drama” which portrays sex as a “fact of life”.
Co-creator David Wolstencroft, however, has insisted that the drama is about much more than gratuitious sex, and instead sought to accurately present the craziness of life in King Louis’s court.