When Alfred the Great was stranded in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. Instead Wessex expanded until, ...

However, the actor is arguably most recognized for playing Aethelhelm — the wealthiest and most powerful man in Wessex — in The Last Kingdom. Between 2018 and 2022, he appeared in 25 episodes ...

In 870 AD the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by Alfred's older brother, King Aethelred, and Alfred himself. In 871 AD ...

She and Prince Edward married in 1999 and the couple have two children, Lady Louise and James, Earl of Wessex. Sophie, previously known as the Countess of Wessex, became Duchess of Edinburgh on ...