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Painting of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Several servants as well as Cardinal Wolsey look on.

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From service to survival: what happened to the households of Henry VIII’s six wives?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German prisoners of war arrive on British soil in 1944, bound for camps somewhere in England (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

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Joseph Chamberlain (far right) pictured with his sons Neville (far left) and Austen, daughter Hilda (front left) and third wife, Mary Endicott (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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British Army tanks are unloaded on to Gold Beach on D-Day

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Henry III of England.

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Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

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William Caxton shows off his new press in Westminster to Edward IV in a 19th-century painting (Photo by Artepics / Alamy Stock Photo)

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MedievalvideoGeoffrey Chaucer5 key things to know

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

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Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A 1380s depiction of the Knights of the Round Table. Their heroics were routinely celebrated at medieval feasts (Photo by Heritage Images / Contributor / Getty Images)

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London in the 16th century map, illustration by Theresa Grieben

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Trade, religion and diversity: how Tudor London became a global city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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Replicas of necklaces belonging to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife (Photo by Angela-Treasures For A Queen - Etsy)

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Illustration by Laurie Avon

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A woman teaches a child to read in a 15th century depiction. The medieval period saw women challenge the male stranglehold on intellectual life, says Ian Mortimer (Photo by Marcello Fedeli / Electa / Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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A woodcut from Frances Rose-Troup’s book about the Prayer Book Rebellion, in which some 4,000 people from Devon and Cornwall died (Photo by Collection PJ / Alamy Stock Photo)

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A clown, c1970s. The next decade, there would be a panic over "stalker clowns" in the US (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

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Wife of Bath

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A 1577 portrait of Arbella Stuart, great- great-granddaughter of Henry VII, as a toddler clutching a doll

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Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Passengers and crew leap from the Gloucester after the ship is wrecked in 1682, in a contemporary painting by Johan Danckerts (Image by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

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Prince Charles, aged 4, driving a toy car in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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Which British monarch had the most successful coronation?

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Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, (1796-1817), was the only daughter of George IV. Engraving by Henry Thomas Ryall (English, 1811-1867), after an original painting by Alfred Edward Chalon.

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