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History and Destiny compete to bring us the story of Saxons, Normans, and Scotland as seen by the Heir of Banquo.
Top Hat Books
December 2014
On Sale: December 12, 2014
Featuring: Eadgar Aetheling; Malcolm III King of Scotland; Walter Stewart
418 pages
ISBN: 1782797548
EAN: 9781782797548
Kindle: B00PYXFJ1I
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Fiction | Historical
Shakespeareβs Witches tell Banquo, βThou Shalt βGet Kings Though Thou Be Noneβ. Though Banquo is murdered, his son Fleance gets away. What happened to Fleance? What Kings? As Shakespeareβs audience apparently knew, Banquo was the ancestor of the Royal Stewart line. But the road to kingship had a most inauspicious beginning, and we follow Fleance into exile and death, bestowing the Witchesβ prophecy on his illegitimate son Walter. Born in Wales and raised in disgrace, Walterβs efforts to understand Banquoβs murder and honor his lineage takes him through many twists and turns before ultimately landing him in Scotland. He fights with Malcolm at the Battle of Dunsinane. We see the famous Welsh expedition of Harold and Tostig Godwineson. Walter then crosses over to Brittany and the court of Count Alain the Roux, then travels with the Bretons to fight alongside his new father-in-law at the battle of Hastings. Finally he travels north to serve with Malcolm III, as the young king struggles to unite Scotland, and where Walter becomes the first Steward of Scotland.
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