William Haggas knows all about that ... too quick for a man who had won the race a record-equalling four times. He need not have worried as Godwinson, a five-year-old he feared was not well enough ...

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star at William, Duke of Normandy (Image: Lilja Jons) The series, written by Michael Robert ...

Young William, Duke of Normandy, quarrels with Harold Godwinson about who should be King of England, before bashing the English and taking the crown at the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066! Meanwhile ...