You read the books about Uhtred of Bebaenburg Is that all you know about Wessex - where Alfred he Great - the only king of England to be called he Great - who died in October 899 and defended southern England from being ovrwhelmed by the Danes. Uhtred was a mythical character who commanded the Wessex army agaist the Danes and became England during the lreign of his grandson,
Through St Margaret of Scotland - a descendant of Alfred he Great - married the Scottish King Malcolm III and an ancestor of James Stuart - who became King of England and Scotland after the death of Elizabth 1 and his gandson James II - whose one daughter married he King of Hanover - who bcame he Englsh King as George I from whom Queen Elizabh II was a direct decendent. So through the female line Elizabeth was also a descebdebt of King Alfred the Great .
Queen Elizabh II was also a reat sudent of History and when Edward Married Sophie Rhys- Jones a commoner from Welsh descent - she refused he title of princess to which she would have been entitled. So Edward was not given a dukedom on marriage. in 1999 as was the case wih the oher sons an grandsons of Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip became very fond of Edward and his wife and expressed the wish that his title of Duke of Edinburg be given to Edward and Sophie on the death of Queen Elizabeth and him..
None of Edwards children - Lady Louise Windsor and her brother who would inherit the title of he heriditary Count of Wesex and Viscount Severn after his fathers death, but neither would be known as Prince or Princess. They wanted their children to not carry a burden and live normal lives, . The Queen and the Wessex family spent weekends at Windsor palace when Sophie and the queen went riding on hroses and walking in Windsor Park and spent Saturday and Sunday evenings in watching hisotrical and war movies, while Sophie was always together on the back seat and joining the Queen in the car driving her to the Royal Ascot races and to church when staying in Balmoral Palace,
Sophie also became a favorite of Prince Wlillam and when he introduced her to some people attending a welfare function he merely said "I would like you to meet my aunt. Since both Prince Edward amd Sophie serve on hudreds of welfare bodies and spent their officil duties for such purposes - when Prince Wlliam succeeds to the thrown he is likely to award a second heriditary tille of Duke to Edward since on Edwards death the title of Duke of Ediburgh will revert back to the thrown.
So Mozart this is the history you zctually refered to when you mentioned Uthtred of Bebbanburg.
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