Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

Georgian

The Jacobite rebellions: how close were they to returning the Stuarts to power?

Queen Victoria refused to wear her crimson velvet robes of state for her wedding to Albert. Instead, she opted for a dress of pure white and “simple magnificence”. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Victorian

“Nothing could have gone off better”: the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Portrait of Marie-Antoinette with the rose, 1783, by Vigée-Le Brun. (Photo by Alamy)

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Marie Antoinette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Charlemagne

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Charlemagne: creating the myth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The execution of Charles I in 1649.

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To kill a king: 350 years of regicide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

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Your guide to...the Glorious Revolution

Members of the royal family at an event marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Opposing the royals: a brief history of republicanism in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the barons compelling King John to ratify Magna Carta, 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval

6 facts about Magna Carta

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Simon de Montfort’s medieval revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

20th Century

The Queen's "rebel sister": 13 facts about Princess Margaret

Edward VI

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To kidnap a king: the foiled plot to abduct Edward VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence

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Blood brothers: Richard III's battle with his siblings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband, Albert, “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American socialite Wallis Simpson

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The vilification of Wallis Simpson: how Edward VIII's mistress was savaged by society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Retiring royals: 9 rulers and royals who stepped down through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Prince Albert

Victorian

What killed Prince Albert?

An illustration of Jeffrey Hudson and Queen Henrietta Maria

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The amazing life of Jeffrey Hudson, the queen's dwarf

William the Conqueror (1027–87), king of England from 1066 when he beat Harold II at the battle of Hastings. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Norman

9 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest

A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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12 facts about the Stuarts

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Louis XIV in 1701.

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From musketeers to Macron: 10 remarkable facts about the Sun King, Louis XIV

Queen Elizabeth I

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"All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Mountbatten at a desk

20th Century

Lord Mountbatten: Did Prince Philip’s uncle attempt to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government?

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A portrait of Isabella I of Castile. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

Isabella I of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?

The queen's visit to the Welsh village of Aberfan

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“No match for reality”: the missing history in The Crown series three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1969 documentary was made amid a feeling that there was an increasing awareness of a need to ‘sell’ the monarchy to the people, writes historian Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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‘Royal Family’: the fly-on-the-wall documentary the Palace doesn’t want you to see. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II invests her eldest son, Prince Charles

20th Century

Charles, The Prince of Wales’s 1969 investiture at Caernarfon Castle, 50 years on

Charles I's great weakness was that he made a strict distinction between his role as king, in which he could not compromise, and his personal role, which was entirely pleasant and courteous, says Sean Lang. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

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8 of the nicest kings in history

The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II

Medieval

Why has the British monarchy survived?

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