[River Hawk]

Interesting about the coins, but the hysteria about “rewriting history” is flimflam. Alfred the Great, the only English called “the great”, is one of the key figures in Anglo-Saxon history, indeed, his cultural influence extends to the current United States of America. And, the current royal family descend in part from Alfred, as after the Norman Conquest the Norman line intermarried with the old Anglo-Saxon royal house. But journalists love to get publicity with “rewrite history” claims.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks River Hawk. All, or perhaps nearly all, of the post-Alfred monarchs in Britain have been descended from him, or rather that's what the paperwork says. The last of the Plantagenet kings is thought to have at least one million descendants in the US -- and his father, who was second to last, is thought to have perhaps ten million.

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