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Circa 1535, King Henry VIII of England (1491 - 1547) and his second wife, Anne Boleyn (1507 - 1536). He had broken with the papacy following the divorce of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1533. Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536 and Henry married Jane Seymour. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, the only child of the marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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