Kings and queens

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Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George III and the art of anatomy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the coffin of Tutankhamun. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

How did Tutankhamun die?

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Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

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Richard III had lavish diet of swan and wine, new forensic study reveals

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Janice Hadlow "The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gaius Caligula

5 facts about Caligula

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King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&A How many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&A Which of Henry VIII’s wives was his best match?

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Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

A caricature of George I

The delightfully dysfunctional Georgians

The princes in the Tower

Did Richard III murder the princes in the Tower? You debate

Tracy Borman’s Tudor quiz