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British queens

Portrait of Anne of Cleves
Tudor

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen?

Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Elizabethan

History explorer: Catholic resistance to Elizabeth I

Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, after their marriage in 1947. (Corbis via Getty Images)
20th Century

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip: 8 milestones in their marriage

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Queen Victoria
Victorian

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)
Tudor

The lost heirs of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on Katherine of Aragon’s failed pregnancies

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren
Victorian

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

Elizabeth I, shown in a portrait commemorating victory over the Armada
Elizabethan

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Elizabeth I

A portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland.
Stuart

Your guide to Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs

A portrait of Elizabeth I, c1565
Medieval

The 10 best English queens in history

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Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–88) an English nobleman. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
Elizabethan

Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I’s great love

Portrait of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII
Tudor

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Anne Boleyn

Thomas Sully's portrait of Queen Victoria
Victorian

The young Queen Victoria’s struggle to gain the throne

Queen Victoria of Great Britain with her husband, Prince Albert, and their nine children. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Victorian

Queen Victoria’s children

Queen Victoria c1870
Victorian

What did Queen Victoria really look like?

Queen Victoria on an ivory throne
Viking

Top 11 monarchs in British history

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