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Armstrong's wife Katherine died in February 1921 after months of ill-health. Police found high levels of arsenic after her body was exhumed and he was charged for his wife's murder Major and Mrs. Herbert Armstrong. January 1922 (Photo by WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

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Lucy Worsley. (Photography by Frank Monks)

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Digital download The Queen: A guide to her life and times from the makers of BBC History Magazine

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The statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester set against a blue sky background

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Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

General History

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Ian Hislop and Alfred the Great

My history hero Ian Hislop chooses Alfred the Great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

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Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

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St Hadrian of Canterbury

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Richard, Duke of York challenges Edmund Beaufort, Suke of Somerset, to pick a side in the Wars of the Roses in Henry Payne's 1910 painting 'Choosing The Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden'

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