Sex and love

A statue of the English queen Matilda in Luxembourg Garden, Paris. (Photo by Waring Abbott/Getty Images)

Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Married to a missionary

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels

When Victoria wed, she wore white so the crowds could see her from afar. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

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You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs

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Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad

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Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

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The scandal of Praxiteles’ Aphrodite

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Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

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The truth behind ‘The Tudors’ TV show

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Roman Passions