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c1954: A photo-fiction serial telling the story of a young couple on honeymoon in the South of France. The parts are played by actors Mark Hashfield and Simone Lovell. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Henry Fitzroy

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WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

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The 1851 Great Exhibition’s west wing

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Isabella of France welcomed by her brother Charles IV to Paris. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

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Edward the Confessor (Anglo-Saxon king of England from 1042) on his throne, as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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The pilgrim fathers

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Edward the Confessor, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

Edward the Confessor: 9 fascinating facts

A watercolour version of a mural showing Henry VIII (front left) with his father, Henry VII, his wife Jane Seymour (front right) and his mother, Elizabeth of York. The mural, which aimed to validate Henry's right to the throne, adorned Whitehall Palace before being destroyed by fire. (Photo by Bridgeman Royal Collection)

Henry VIII: confident young king or insecure son?

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14th century miniature showing a child's baptism. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Top, left to right: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Bottom, left to right: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr.

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The Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (Public Domain)

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Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

First World War

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