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From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Anne Boleyn, these queens shaped British history...
Tudor
Katherine Parr: the truth about the wife who ‘survived’
Tudor
Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn: the Tudor queen’s undying love for her mother
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Elizabeth Cromwell: the life of Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen
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Queen Elizabeth II through the decades
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Queen Elizabeth II
50+ facts about her life and reign
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The young Queen Victoria’s struggle to gain the throne
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Queen Elizabeth II and her reign
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From silver to platinum: a history of Queen Elizabeth II’s jubilees
Tudor
Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent
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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings
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Caroline of Ansbach: why George II’s remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics
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