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The Crown S5 E3 real history: exiled royals and the al-Fayeds

Prince Philip played by Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip and Natascha McElhone as Penelope Knatchbull

The Crown S5 E2 real history: Prince Philip’s ‘keeper of secrets’ and Andrew Morton’s book on Princess Diana

Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Dominic West as Prince Charles in episode one of season five of The Crown.

The Crown S5 E1 real history: ‘Queen Victoria Syndrome’ and a second honeymoon

Britain’s harsh winter of 1880–81 depicted as the start of a new ice age, by contemporary cartoonist George du Maurier (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Out of the cold: the slow beginnings of climate change science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pharaohs' pants & knightly toilet troubles: teaching history to kids. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Henry V (left) in a late-16th- or early 17th-century portrait by an unknown artist; and his son Henry VI (right) in a c1500s portrait (Photos by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Why Henry VI’s reign was such a disaster

Imelda Staunton as the Queen in S5 of The Crown

Royal historian Tracy Borman on the real events behind The Crown season 5

Medieval excommunication: eternal damnation or no big deal?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Margaret’s final years

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

Statue of Ramesses II, at Luxor Temple. He ruled Egypt for 66 years, and left more statues than any other pharaoh (Photo by Michelle McMahon / Getty Images)

5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

Theban mural showing people plucking geese. (Photo by DEA / G Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

Where is The Crown filmed? The Netflix drama’s locations and their royal links

President Reagan laughs following a joke by Queen Elizabeth, who commented on the lousy California weather she had experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen is delivering a brief address during a state dinner held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. (Picture by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth's relationships with US presidents

How is Tutankhamun’s legacy shaped by colonialism?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The queen – dressed in dark clothing – stands up from a table to deliver a speech

Annus HorribilisWhat happened in the Queen’s horrible year?

A copy of a wall painting shows Sety I (r1294-1279 BC) opening the door for Osiris, lord of the dead

Egyptian pharaohs: your essential guide to Egypt’s ancient rulers

A carving of Tutankhamun and his young wife Ankhesenamun

The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb

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History & science: the big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front shows actor Felix Kammerer as a WW1 soldie

All Quiet on the Western Front inspiration: “As Remarque said, war is not an adventure. There’s nothing glorious about it”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

circa 1923: A Remembrance Day poster issued by the British Legion after World War One, reminding people to wear a Flanders poppy on November 11th. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Why we should remember...When the paper poppy became a symbol of remembrance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Allies plucked victory from the jaws of defeat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The letter that betrayed the gunpowder plotters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A man goes into a village at night on the eve of Samhain

What is the history behind the Celtic festival of Samhain and what does it have to do with Halloween?

Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in season 5 of The Crown

Opinion“If scholars can’t write accurate histories of the Queen’s reign, drama is what we’ll continue to rely on”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Halloween monsters: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.