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Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E5 real history: Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in and the Falklands crisis

Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II and Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

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The Crown S4 E4 real history: mothers in the spotlight and the ‘favourite’ royal child

Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding day in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E3 real history: Diana’s struggles, the ‘G’ & ‘F’ bracelet, and a royal engagement

Emma Corrin as Diana and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E2 real history: what are the Balmoral tests?

Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945

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7 facts about Buckingham Palace

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as a young man

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Your guide to the Queen's husband, Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

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When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

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Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

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Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

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Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

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Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

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1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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The White Ship disaster

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Making a splash: Diana relishes taking her sons on a water ride at the Thorpe Park theme park in 1993. William has since recalled how his mother loved "laughter and fun". (Photo by Getty Images)

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The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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King Arthur triumphs over the Saxons at the battle of Mount Badon

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David Olusoga"Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Anne Boleyn

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Glamis Castle is said to be the most-haunted castle in Scotland. (Photo by mpalis via Getty Images)

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Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

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