The Bayeux Mysteries!

Podcast: Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things · Daily Mail

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most famous works of art in the world: nearly 70 metres of kings, battles, betrayals and bloodshed. But how much of the story it tells can we actually believe? Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams unravel the extraordinary 11th-century embroidery that turned the Norman Conquest into a medieval propaganda epic. Who commissioned it? Why was it probably made by English women? And did Harold really die with an arrow in his eye? There are mysteries in the margins too, including the enigmatic Aelfgifu, Halley’s Comet and a...