If you haven't sent your question for the Q&A episode, you still have time.

And if you sent in a question about alternative history, counterfactuals like,

what would have happened if Harold had won at the Battle of Hastings?

You might want to send in a different question, because while I might dress a bit like

Dr. Strange, I don't have its powers, so I can't really see other dimensions.

And honestly, I have a hard enough time figuring out what actually happened in this dimension. So my answers to

those questions aren't going to be all that great. But you still have time to send in a different

question. And you can send them to the British History Podcast at gmail.com, or if you don't feel like emailing,

I'm going to set up a post on our Reddit community for these questions, and you could submit them there, too.

I suppose you can also send them directly to me on Blue Sky, but however you choose to do it, send me your questions.

Okay, let's do the show.

Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is episode 498, power and predictability.

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The death of Duke Roberts' chief ally, William Mbritwi, and the succession crisis that it kicked

off was destabilizing the Duchy of Normandy.

And while I'm sure it was a relief that King Henry and Robert of Moulon had brokered a sort

of resolution to the crisis, everyone watching knew that their intrusion into

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