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The Crown S4 E6 real history: Charles and Diana’s 1983 royal tour of Australia & the start of ‘Dianamania’

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

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

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

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

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

In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Sarah Gristwood reviews The Crown season 4: “We’ve reached the issue of how fiction influences opinion in the real world”

7 facts about Buckingham Palace

Your guide to the Queen's husband, Prince Philip

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan: what happened and why did he break in?

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

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

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The story of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Princess Diana: a "modern" mother who ripped up the rule book. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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.

Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Falklands War in the air. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Your guide to the 1940 Coventry Blitz

Black Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adventure and opportunity: female transatlantic travellers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s wedding: everything you need to know

Bletchley Park: Britain's wartime intelligence factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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