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Researchers reveal secret find of 340-year-old sunken royal warship

A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was unveiled by researchers on Friday who kept the discovery secret for 15 years to protect the wreck from damage.

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Six years after the sinking Catholic James II was ousted by the Protestant William of Orange in the 1688 "Glorious Revolution", paving the way for the future constitutional monarchy in Britain.