From devil's tool to the instrument of modesty - the fork has been called many things! 

A king, who would be beheaded, a sovereign, known as the Sun King, a queen, hailed as Gloriana - all had an opinion on the fork, which saw its fortunes rise and fall, as Empires came and went, and the fork came to represent the ideals of a new era.

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