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Catherine de Valois is seen here marrying Henry V, who was 14 years her senior, as part of the 1420 Treaty of Troyes. Following Henry's death she wed Welshman Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, who is variously referred to as the queen’s steward, page or cupbearer. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy)

Scandalous Tudor marriages: 7 women who braved royal wrath by marrying for love

Edward VI

To kidnap a king: the foiled plot to abduct Edward VI

Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence

Blood brothers: Richard III’s battle with his siblings

Portrait of Prince Albert

What killed Prince Albert?

Westminster Abbey, London

A brief history of Westminster Abbey

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

In pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

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Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

Secrets of the river . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Knole, a house on an epic scale that's now run by the National Trust.

Explore Knole: the grandest of family homes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nicola Tallis photographed by David Hampton in October 2019

Nicola Tallis on Margaret Beaufort, mother of the Tudors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hallie Rubenhold photographed in London.

Hallie Rubenhold: “To most people, the women killed by the Ripper are just corpses. I want to tell a different story” . 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)

‘Royal Family’: the fly-on-the-wall documentary the Palace doesn’t want you to see

The War of the Worlds. (Photo by BBC/© Mammoth Screen)

Days of future past: how the new BBC TV series The War of the Worlds reinvented the sci-fi classic

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

“There was no feeling sorry for themselves”: director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.