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... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of King James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
... that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of Poland?

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