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History Hot 100 results: the historical figures who fascinated you most in 2016

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Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

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Historical fiction and a US murder scandal

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis

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The Reformation

From left to right: Queen Isabella of Castile; French regent Anne de Beaujeu; and Catherine of Aragon. (Photos by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/DeAgostini/Imagno/Getty Images)

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

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The ill-fated 'Titanic', which sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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The reluctant ambassador: the life and times of Tudor diplomat Sir Thomas Chaloner

A portrait of Henry VIII, who is buried in a ‘temporary’ vault under the Quire in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the company of his third queen, Jane Seymour. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Henry VIII is buried where?!

Mary I was defined by her intense piety and sober-mindedness but, says Tracy Borman, England’s first crown queen regnant was a different woman in the closeted world of her privy chamber. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Tudors behind closed doors

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Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war

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9 of history’s best quotes

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Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

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Shakespeare’s 7 most notorious couples