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For the royals, clothes say more than words can

FASHIONThe Royal Wardrobeby Rosie Harte (Headline £22, 384 pp)Which royal feared looking fat and had her photos so robustly retouched she looked like a waxwork?Who wooed a king with a headdress which ‘scandalously’ exposed her…

The tragic little prince who can never go home

HISTORYTHE PRINCE AND THE PLUNDER by Andrew Heavens (History Press £22.99, 272pp)In the back row of a class photograph taken at Rugby School in 1876, you can spot just one person of colour, peering out shyly from behind one of his more…