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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

In the year 955, Ayadwe became King of England and in quite a fashion.

According to 10th century sources, this Anglo-Saxon ruler nipped out of his own

coronation feast to engage in a sex romp with both his wife and her mother, before being

dragged back into the feast hall by one of his leading churchmen. But can we really trust this salacious account?

Well, in today's podcast, David Musgrove speaks to Dr. Catherine Weikard,

author of the brilliantly titled article,

Aadwe has a threesome, sex and the breaking of authority in the 10th century. To find out what on earth was going on.

So, King Ayadwi came to the throne in the mid 10th century and during his coronation feast,

he left the meal to engage in some sort of sexual acts with two women who may have been his wife and his wife's mother.

Now, that's quite a story. Did it actually happen?

Likely, no, but it's a great story. We can't just pretend it's not there, can we? Because it's also

too good to pass up in terms of a king just deciding to leave his coronation feast and basically

go have a menagerie. It's the kind of story

that needs and demands attention, I think, and whether it happened or not, honestly, doesn't really

matter. Let's get into this then. So we've got this guy, King Eadwe. What do we know about him? When did

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