First of all, I'd like to mention that the next update
is still in the works, but it will still be a while before I can devote more time to it. My current project is the third chapter of the Scottish side story of Antemios Komnenos, a guest update for General_BT's truly excellent story,
Rome AARisen. If you haven't read it yet, you need to head over there right now. Just follow the link. Seriously. It's the best AAR ever.
And now for some replies:
Alfredian: Indeed, and possibly sooner than you would think.
RGB: Should I count that as 1/10 of a vote for each then? I must admit, they're all such good suggestions that I might just have to find a way to integrate each of them in one form or another. Within reason, of course.
Bagricula: Thank you very much for your kind words, and welcome to the story! Don't worry about taking your time to read... of necessity I am compelled to take my time to write as well.
Christian V,
Rabid Bogling,
Vesimir,
AllmyJames &
Woody Man: Your votes are all duly noted. Thank you all very much for your continued patronage and support!
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Lastly, I thought I would include something of interest that I have discovered in my research. It is easy to surmise that Harold Godwinson's family line was snuffed out soon after the Battle of Hastings. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, King Harold has many famous descendants, even down to the present day. Here are just a few of his more prominent direct lineal descendants, in no particular order:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Henry the Navigator, Catherine Parr, Robert and Horace Walpole, Robert Adam, Henry Cavendish, Talleyrand, William Wilberforce, The Duke of Wellington, Jane Austen, Lord Melbourne, Francis Scott Key, Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert E. Lee, Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Gladstone, Ralph Vaughan Williams, P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, David Hume, Marie Antoinette, "Rob Roy" MacGregor, Lawrence of Arabia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, Orson Welles, H.P. Lovecraft, The Red Baron, Aldous Huxley, Noel Coward, Queen Elizabeth II, Humphrey Bogart, George Orwell, Nelson Rockefeller, Hugh Grant, Guy Ritchie, Princess Diana, Wernher von Braun, Margaret Thatcher, Audrey Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, Michael Douglas, John Kerry, Tony Blair, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brooke Shields, Hilary and Haylie Duff.
So as you can see, our protagonist Harold Godwinson is the direct ancestor of some of the most important people in western history (and some others that just happen to be famous for no particular reason
). What do you think of that, dear readers?
Talk about Godwinson Ho!
