Dear Mr. Cornwell: I was reading recently in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and elsewhere about an Aeldorman Uhtred of Northumbria who abandoned the cause of Aethelred the Unready, but was repaid by being dispossessed and executed by order of the Danish conqueror, King Canute in around 1016 to 1020. Was this your relative that you refer to in the afterword of The Last Kingdom (which I LOVED, by the way)? If so, did your family ever recover their standing as nobility, and if not, what did they become (obviously, they did not go extinct)? I’m just curious, as your family history is an interesting glance into those turbulent times. Mike