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Current period
1996 to 1996 opens onto 1 life, 1 place story, and the wider chronology.
Lives in this period
These are the clearest lives to open first when you want a person, not a date label, to lead you into the period.
Places inside this time
In 1996 to 1996, use the same years to move from chronology into cities, courts, islands, and regions that already carry deeper context.
Time travel
1996 CE to 1996 CE
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Chronology
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1996 - Kensington Palace
Place story available
In the small writing room at the back of Apartment Eight, three days after the divorce was made absolute and the letter from the Queen?s office removing my style of Her Royal Highness went into the drawer of my mother?s old desk, I am setting down my own account of myself, on plain paper, while I still can, before the version of me being assembled in rooms I am not in finishes replacing the one I can still recognise as mine.
1996 to 1996 across the atlas
1996 - Kensington Palace
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