Back to the past we go as the worlds of William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold Godwinson collide in bloody fashion in new epic drama
William of Normandy, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The thing about history is that there is an awful lot of it about, and it only ever gets bigger. The stuff that happens today is tomorrow’s history, and the potential to be brain fodder for future generations forced to study the subject at school.
So when the new BBC show King & Conqueror kicks off with ‘crown a new king and conqueror and the rest is history’, you have a fair idea where we’re going.