King Charles III and Queen Camilla will not make Buckingham Palace their personal residence when the decade-long renovation of the building is completed next year, the Royal Household has confirmed.
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.
