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Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Dominic West as Prince Charles in episode one of season five of The Crown.

The Crown S5 E1 real history: ‘Queen Victoria Syndrome’ and a second honeymoon

Princess Margaret visits the new Docklands development in London, UK, July 1987. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Princess Margaret’s final years

Where is The Crown filmed? The Netflix drama’s locations and their royal links

The queen – dressed in dark clothing – stands up from a table to deliver a speech

Annus Horribilis What happened in the Queen’s horrible year?

A still from a new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front shows actor Felix Kammerer as a WW1 soldie

First World War

All Quiet on the Western Front inspiration: “As Remarque said, war is not an adventure. There’s nothing glorious about it”

Protesters gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the 2003 Hutton inquiry into claims, broadcast on the BBC, that the case for war in Iraq had been “sexed up”.

BBC at 100 Rocked by scandal

Jazz singer Adelaide Hall at Radiolympia, 1947

BBC at 100 Entry into the television age

Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

BBC at 100 1950s friction between government and the BBC

Charles (Josh O'Connor) and Diana (Emma Corrin) in 'The Crown', left; and the real royal couple dancing in Sydney

Netflix’s The Crown: the real history behind the royal drama

St George lances a dragon

Tips from history How do you really kill a dragon?

Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, c1860, (left) and actor Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in Netflix drama The Empress.

Sisi: the tragic life of the lost and lonely Empress Elisabeth of Austria

The Serpent Queen stars Samantha Morton as Catherine de' Medici

The Serpent Queen The STARZ drama offers a caricature of the real Catherine de' Medici

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Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon (Photo by Ollie Upton/HBO)

House of the Dragon The real historical event behind the Game of Thrones prequel

The cast of Downton Abbey in front of Highclere Castle. (Image by Alamy)

The upstairs/downstairs world of Downton Abbey: how true to life is it?