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Ladies-in-waiting

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Winner takes all: A painting shows the French ship 'Redoutable' clashing with the British 'Temeraire'.

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Rye House in Hertfordshire, which became the Parr family home in 1517, when Katherine was around five years old. (© James Schutte/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Nationalist troops escort captured Republican militia during the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel in July 1588, by Hendrick Cornelis Vroom, c1600. (Picture by DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/Getty Images)

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The march for Catalan Independence held in Barcelona, 11 September 2014 (Photo by Jordi Elias Grassot/Alamy)

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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)

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The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

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Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

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Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)

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Barcelona. (Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler (left) and his interpreter (centre) talking to Spanish leader Francisco Franco. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Army Signal Corps/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Seve Ballesteros. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Getty Images)

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