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    Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    History explorer: Catholic resistance to Elizabeth I

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    Princess Elizabeth, later Queen', c1547, (1902). Portrait of the future Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) aged 14, before she was expected to be queen. Illustration, after a picture in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, from Henry VIII, by A F Pollard, published by Goupil and Co, (London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, 1902). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

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    Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. (Photo by Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    Princely pleasures at Kenilworth: Robert Dudley’s three-week marriage proposal to Elizabeth I

    The portrait of Queen Elizabeth I known as the Ditchley portrait, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    What did Elizabeth I really look like at 60?

    The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), in Virginia, leading to the settlement established on Roanoke Island under John White (c.1540-93 (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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    What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

    Anne Boleyn was executed on 19 May 1536. (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy)
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    Tudor timeline: 10 momentous dates

    A portrait of Elizabeth I, who, says Susan Doran, “confounded her Catholic enemies, imposed her will on the political scene, turned England into a strong Protestant state and presided over a glittering court culture”. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    The Library | Elizabeth I: the great unifier

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    A crowned Tudor rose. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images)
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    Why the Tudors grab us

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    A portrait of the young Elizabeth I. (Photo by Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo)
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    The Library | Elizabeth I's personality: the unfathomable queen

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    A scene from ’Othello’ by William Shakespeare, published in 1622. The play “seems to have been influenced by Anglo-Moroccan relations that reached their high point in the summer of 1600,” writes Brotton. (Culture Club/Getty Images)
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    Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

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    Elizabeth’s love rival

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    A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

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    The hidden story of Elizabeth I: 60 seconds with Tracy Borman

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    History Hot 100 results: the historical figures who fascinated you most in 2017

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