Centuries of love letters go on display at the National Archives in London
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The Abdication document of Britain's King Edward VIII on display during a preview of an exhibition entitled Love Letters at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, Edward abdicated on Dec. 10, 1936. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)The will of British author Jane Austen on display during a preview of the Love Letter exhibition at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)A 16th century letter written by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, to Queen Elizabeth I, on view during a preview of the Love Letters exhibition at the National Archives in London on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, shows two dots written above the word poor, a reference to the monarch's nickname for Dudley: Eyes. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)A general view of part of the Love Letters exhibition at the National Archives, with pictures of the writer Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)A letter written by Lord Alfred Douglas to Britain's Queen Victoria, petitioning for the release of Oscar Wilde from prison on display during a press preview of an exhibition entitled Love Letters at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, Wilde was imprisoned in 1895 for gross indecency. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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The Abdication document of Britain's King Edward VIII on display during a preview of an exhibition entitled Love Letters at the National Archives in London, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, Edward abdicated on Dec. 10, 1936. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)