Buckingham Palace's Picture Gallery has undergone a stunning transformation, nearly doubling the number of paintings on display from 63 to 120 masterpieces as the State Rooms open for the summer season.
The king whose death caused 1066. The only English king made a saint, the builder of Westminster Abbey - and the man whose failure to name an heir ended Anglo-Saxon England.
The first man to rule all of England, and the most important English king almost nobody has heard of. Alfred dreamed of a united England; his grandson Athelstan made it - and defended it at the great Battle of Brunanburh.
The only English monarch called the Great - though he never ruled England, which did not yet exist. He saved Anglo-Saxon England from the Vikings, then built the schools, laws and defenses on which a nation was founded.
As Prince George prepares to start at Eton College in September, he's following a path that would have been unthinkable for monarchs just a few generations ago.
