Status Updates From Kings & Queens: The Real Li...

Bro, I’ve already learned a bunch and I’m only 2% done…. YEAHHHHH!!! More learning!

Fantastic bite sized history thru Alfred the Great to ERII. Some over simplified stuff, but for lesser known (especially for me) monarchs, helpful. A way to dive deeply into the rabbit hole.

King John was as bad as I recall from all Robin Hood stories, and I’m now going to have to watch Lion in Winter with my wife again, plus Becket.

Thru Anglo-Saxon kings, all the descendants of Alfred the Great, on down to William and the Battle of Hastings. Good info, stories, and easy to digest overviews. led to many rabbit holes, including that the Scottish Kings were descended from Alfred much further than the English, via Malcolm III’s wife Margaret, descended from Ethelred the “Unready”and that Unraed as it was written, meant “ill advised”