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TIL British aristocrats often went broke after royal visits. Queen Elizabeth I spent her holydays at her titled noblemen's country estates. The problem was that Tudor monarchs didn’t just travel alone and hosts had to find housing, food and entertainment for over 300 people, often at short notice.

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