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The battle of Culloden. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Chatsworth House, where Elizabeth I ordered for Mary, Queen of Scots to be imprisoned after she abdicated and fled from Scotland to England in 1567. (Photo by Chatsworth House Trust)

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Napoleon Bonaparte of France. (Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images)

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Cunk on Britain. (BBC/House of Tomorrow/Adam Lawrence)

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A depiction of the interior of parliament

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The Chateau d'Hougoutmont, Belgium, was the scene of one of the most important battles in British and European history – the battle of Waterloo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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"For those of noble birth who were condemned to die, execution by beheading (which was considered the least brutal method of execution) was used until the 18th century," says Seal. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Prince Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland and fifth son of King George III

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Kew Palace was a residence of George III and Queen Charlotte during his reign from 1760. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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Robert Burns. (Getty Images)

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Group portrait at a drawing room table by Maria Spilsbury (1777-c 1823). (Photo © Bonhams, London, UK / Bridgeman Images)

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