Why a Booktrail?
A stunning re-telling of 1066
The Last Princess
Why a Booktrail?
A stunning re-telling of 1066
What you need to know before your trail
Young and beautiful Gytha Godwinson is the envy of England when her father Harold seizes the country’s crown in early 1066. However, treachery tears her house, her family and everything she holds dear apart. Soon triumph turns to terror as an evil star appears, heralding the end of an era and a new beginning for Britain. Her family and the realm seem cursed, but even as she suffers loss, betrayal and humiliation, Gytha is determined to regain what is rightfully hers. She survives the walk through the furnace that is the conquest and goes so much further.
Travel Guide
Hastings, Sussex
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. It was a decisive Norman victory.
The author says:
The fabulous fate of Gytha Godwinson, my gorgeous new girl, and the heroine of my novel ‘The Last Princess’ allowed for easy geographical research. I loved visiting its locations in England, which made her come alive. The novel begins set in the splendour of Bosham in rural Sussex, in late 1065. To date, Bosham chapel is unchanged from when Gytha worshipped here as the docile daughter of the Earl of Wessex.
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Destination/Location: Hastings, London Author: Ellen Alpsten Departure: 1066
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