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The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

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Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

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The Gallows PoleThe true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India Amarteifio as Young Queen Charlotte, Corey Mylchreest as Young King George in episode 3 of 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'.

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QuizCould You Make It Through A London Season In The Regency Era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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The real story of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: from glittering courts to tragic decline

Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, (1796-1817), was the only daughter of George IV. Engraving by Henry Thomas Ryall (English, 1811-1867), after an original painting by Alfred Edward Chalon.

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Princess Charlotte of Wales: the original people's princess

La Belle Assemblee - British women's magazine published 1806-1837, founded by John Bell (1745-1831), now best known for its Regency era fashion plates from "Fashions and Fashion Plates 1800-1900", by James Laver. [Penguin Books Limited, London and New York, 1943]. Artist Unknown.

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Was the Regency era a good time to be a woman?The truth not seen in Bridgerton

A painting depicts Frederica, the bride- to-be of Frederick, Duke of York, meeting in-laws George III and Queen Charlotte for the first time

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The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte's court

India Amarteifio as young Queen Charlotte in episode 1 of 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'.

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Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

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Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Gillray's A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

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An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson's General History. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

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The real Rob Roy

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Marie Antoinette in her own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

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Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

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Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

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Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the 'worst pirate of all time'

A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775

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How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

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A brief history of Boxing Day

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The life and death of Marie Antoinette: everything you need to know about the last queen of France

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