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The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

by Gareth Russell (Goodreads Author)

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

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“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”
― Alain de Botton

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“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

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