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A 19th-century painting shows Henry VIII meeting Anne Boleyn, as ladies-in-waiting and courtiers look on (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The river Brathay finding its way to Elder Water lake during a sunny Autumn morning (Photo by Daniel Bosma/Getty)

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The Registration Room in Hut 6, Block D, Bletchley Park. (Courtesy of Bletchley Park)

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Anne Boleyn pays Mark Smeaton a final visit in Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena

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Victorian women gossip at the opera (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)

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A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A photo a two men riding horses, all dressed in jousting gear.

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Painting of Lord Byron and his Muse

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British prime minister Harold Wilson, March 1967. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

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A horse ambulance in the 19th century, and (inset, above) an advert for an RSPCA fund for horses. The number of beasts of burden working in cities rose rapidly in the Victorian era. (Photo by Alamy)

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A portrait of King George III, next to a shackle in the foreground of Buckingham palace.

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