The King's Riddle

It is the summer of 1089 and, in the communal hall of the village of Maidstone, in Kent, the marriage of a Norman knight and the daughter of a prosperous local miller is being celebrated. The newlywed pair is gloriously happy, but the same cannot be said of their guests, for although it has been twenty-three years since the Battle of Hastings, wedlock between Englishwomen and men of the hated race that conquered their land is still not looked on with favour by the native populace. When the br...

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