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Love before Albert: Queen Victoria’s suitors
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Princely pleasures at Kenilworth: Robert Dudley’s three-week marriage proposal to Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth’s love rival
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Victoria and Albert: a marriage of misery?
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In pictures: erotic postcards of the early 20th century
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The 1967 Sexual Offences Act: a landmark moment in the history of British homosexuality
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Marrying for love: Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
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The Duke of Wellington and his ‘Dearest Georgy’
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