Chin up! How at 18 Queen Elizabeth I was dogged by anxiety, Richard Burton was a school dropout and Geoffrey Chaucer had been lucky to survive the Black Death, writes historian ALICE LOXTON on A level results day

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What would a modern therapist make of eighteen-year-old Elizabeth I? Her mother had been executed when she was a toddler and she had seen four stepmothers come and go.

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