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Fans of the Netflix series “The Last Kingdom” and the series of books by Bernard Cornwell, on which the series is based, will know the main character Uhtred of Bebbanburg. He is a fictional character; however, many events in the series based in ninth-century England are historical as is the King he served, Alfred of Wessex – known to history as Alfred the Great and his wife, Lady…

1 December 1135:On this day in 1135, King Henry I died in Normandy, France. The fourth son of William the Conqueror was married to Matilda of Scotland, with whom he had three children, and to Adeliza of Louvain, after Matilda’s death. He also had at least twenty-four illegitimate children with various mistresses. The King reigned for 35 years and was succeeded by King Stephen.3 December…

In September 2016, Lord Ivar Mountbatten became the first member of the extended British Royal fam­ily to openly come out as gay.Speaking to the Mail on Sunday at the time of his disclosure, Lord Ivar said: “Being a Mountbatten was never the problem it was the generation into which I was born. When I was growing up, it was known as ‘the love that dare not speak its name’, but…