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Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

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The Crown S4 E8 real history: why did Margaret Thatcher & the Queen clash over apartheid in South Africa?

Helen Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret in 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E7 real history: Princess Margaret’s decline and a royal secret revealed

Diana, Princess of Wales, played by Emma Corrin in Netflix's 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E6 real history: Charles and Diana’s 1983 royal tour of Australia & the start of ‘Dianamania’

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E5 real history: Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in and the Falklands crisis

Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II and Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

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The Crown S4 E4 real history: mothers in the spotlight and the ‘favourite’ royal child

Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding day in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E3 real history: Diana’s struggles, the ‘G’ & ‘F’ bracelet, and a royal engagement

Emma Corrin as Diana and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E2 real history: what are the Balmoral tests?

Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in season 4 of 'The Crown'

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The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

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Historian Sarah Gristwood reviews The Crown season 4: “We’ve reached the issue of how fiction influences opinion in the real world”

Statue of King Alfred the Great in leafy Trinity Church Square, Southwark. It is thought to be the oldest statue in London.

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Map of the universe, miniature from The Tales of Luqman, Arabic manuscript, 1583. (Photo by Getty Images)

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A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945

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A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as a young man

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Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

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Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan

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Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan: what happened and why did he break in?

An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

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1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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The White Ship disaster

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Making a splash: Diana relishes taking her sons on a water ride at the Thorpe Park theme park in 1993. William has since recalled how his mother loved "laughter and fun". (Photo by Getty Images)

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The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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