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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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