Sex and love

Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. (Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Corbis via Getty Images)

Princely pleasures at Kenilworth: Robert Dudley’s three-week marriage proposal to Elizabeth I

Podcast FB Nicola Tallis

Elizabeth’s love rival

Henry VIII

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry VIII

A couple get amorous in this 14th-century illustration

Call the medieval sex doctor

Nefertiti

Has the world been blinded by Nefertiti’s beauty?

From The Library

Lettice Knollys

Lettice Knollys: Elizabeth I’s nemesis

From The Library

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their children, by Frederick Winterhalter. (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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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Lonely hearts and holiday flings: a history of dating

Anonymous engraving, ‘Master of the garden of love’, dating from the 15th century. In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

7 ways to say “I love you” in medieval Europe

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The Duke of Wellington and his ‘Dearest Georgy’

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Who were ‘Stella’ and ‘Fanny’?