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So this week we finally read 1066, surely the most famous date in English history.

It's a very well-troden path, there's masses of stuff out there, but it's also a fantastic story.

So let's enjoy going through it one more time.

Let's start then with a summary of the three main

protagonists. By 1066, William the Basket was a fully grown man,

depicted as a man of fair stature with remarkably strong arms, the receding

hairline and a rasping guttural voice. He was about 5 foot 10, which would have been pretty tall for the age

and enjoyed excellent health until old age. He did get very fat in later life, so much

so that the French king, Philip I, said that William looked like a pregnant woman.

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