The painted white face of Queen Elizabeth I: one of the most recognisable regal looks in history. But there was more to Elizabeth's makeup than meets the eye; including a tragic origin, a fragile vanity, and a poisonous irony that saw this attempt to look powerful being perhaps the very thing to rob the monarch of her strength... 

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Within the annals of royal love stories, that of King Edward the 8th and Wallis Simpson stands as maybe the greatest. After all, it was a love strong enough for Edward to give up his crown...

But some newly discovered evidence indicates perhaps this love story was not as great as we thought - evidence in the form of letters penned by Wallis herself, and addressed to the most unlikely of recipients. 

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King Charles the second ruled England for 25 years. And in that time, he focused more on chasing women than he did on politics. He paraded a succession of mistresses in front of the public, as well as his wife Queen Catherine.

He was known as the Merry Monarch and he was known to be obsessed with sensuality. In this episode, LJ Charleston takes a look at the life of the one true Party King to see if he really lived up to his name. 

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