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That Was The Queen That Was
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Seventy Years On
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What the Butler Saw
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Colonel Blimp Enthroned
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Queen
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The King Who Lost America
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The Sport of Kings
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How to Lose Two Crowns
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Stephen Bates
The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen
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Ivy Killer & Consort
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Queen Mary: The Official Biography
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Anne Somerset
Marriage Plots
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Never Knowingly Understaffed
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The Devil Wears Ermine
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King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
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Thomas Shippey
Move Over, St George
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Cousins in Arms
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Death Became Him
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Piers Brendon
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