STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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Dirty Rotten Comics
Edited by Kirk Campbell
(Dirty Rotten Comics, £4)
LEGEND has it that when Henry VIII was at stool in Hampton Court palace he spotted a graffiti of Anne Boleyn, legs akimbo, on the toilet door.
Recognising it to be an accurate anatomical representation from someone obviously in the know, he immediately fell out of love and sought revenge.
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