Kings and queens

Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, gives his 'victory' sign while making a polling day tour of his constituency during an election. (Getty Images)

Are these the most overrated people in history?

The Black Prince's tomb in Canterbury Cathedral depicts Edward III's son as a resting warrior, a paragon of knightly virtue. The prince conceived the tomb's design himself but not everyone has bought into his favourable assessment of his life's achievements. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The Black Prince: hero or villain?

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Suzannah Lipscomb on the importance of the Tudors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Library Wales in the Civil War: the last refuge of monarchy

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A big day in history: a royal icon is stabbed through the heart

A portrait of Russian queen Catherine the Great

In pictures: Catherine the Great

Executed queen

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Was a nine-year-old boy imprisoned for making a joke about Louis XIV’s bald head?

Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne

Richard I (also known as Richard the Lionheart) frequently dated documents with the 'regnal year'. An example of this might be

A legacy of the lionheart

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The Library The Thames triumphant: royal parties on London’s grandest street

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A view towards the Carew estuary between a dry stone wall and the ruins of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK. (Dreamstime)

Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?

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King George VI and stories from Africa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.