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The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as a young man

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Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan

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

An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Personal stories of the Second World War

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

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

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know

The story of the Dambusters

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?

Inside the Viking mind

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history's biggest fibs

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

The history of vaccination: from Edward Jenner to anti-vaxxers

1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Life in the royal nursery: growing up as a young prince or princess

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe

The White Ship disaster

The White Ship disaster"The most disastrous moment in British maritime history"

The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy

The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

Second World War

Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

Making a splash: Diana relishes taking her sons on a water ride at the Thorpe Park theme park in 1993. William has since recalled how his mother loved "laughter and fun". (Photo by Getty Images)

Princess Diana: a "modern" mother who ripped up the rule book

The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Alternate history: what if… the gunpowder plot had succeeded?

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi

King Arthur triumphs over the Saxons at the battle of Mount Badon

How much of the story of King Arthur is true?

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

Henry VIII’s mistresses: who else did the Tudor king sleep with?

George Washington

American presidents: 9 things you (probably) didn’t know

David Olusoga"Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason"

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?

The history of medicine: everything you wanted to know

Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2