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The only portrait of England's ill-fated Protestant queen may have been discovered after years of controversy over who it ...

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The actor reprises his magisterial performance as Thomas Cromwell in this follow-up to the 2015 series on PBS, based on the ...

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Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

Today is National Proposal Day - and if you are struggling for ideas on how to make the moment romantic, perhaps you should take a leaf out of the royal book on love.

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The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...