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BBC History Magazine

Summary

Elizabeth I’s French ally Estelle Paranque explores the unlikely friendship between the Tudor queen and the Catholic king Henri III, Catherine the Great Janet Hartley defends the Russian empress against the charge that she was a sex-mad tyrant, Max Hastings on the terrible odds that faced the Dambusters...