The Royals is an American television drama series that premiered on E! on March 15, 2015. The series began as a loose adaptation of the Michelle Ray novel Falling for Hamlet,[1] and each episode is named after a line of dialogue from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The series features a fictional contemporary British royal family as they deal with drama and scandals inside and outside of their family while in the public eye.[2][3]
During the course of the series, 40 episodes of The Royals aired over four seasons, between March 15, 2015, and May 13, 2018.