who was just two years away from a painful death following an arrow to the eye. Now the famous, rambunctious feast scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, two years before King Harold was brutally killed at ...

Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of the English, lost his eye to an arrow and his crown to William, Duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Hastings. A great deal of what we know, or think we know ...

Did Edward the Confessor promise the throne of England to William of Normandy, or was that just a rumour? Was King Harold shot by an arrow through the eye, or is that just a tapestry-maker's fantasy?