Hello Mr Cornwell.

Thanks for writing your King Arthur and Lord Uhtred stories. For me I really like the way you merge real history with your ideas. (I haven’t read the Sharpe novels its too recent a history for me). I come from Coventry and have been interested in history for over 50 years. I was brought up with the history of the 2nd world war ( my mother is 96 and she lived through the Blitz) so I never got to know about Coventry’s more interesting medieval history! Coventry in the Saxon times had  a nunnery founded by St Osburg which was looted of its gold and destroyed by the Danes under King Canute! (Sound familiar). It also turns out that I was born in the grounds of a medieval monastery (Whitefriars). It also turns out that the road I live just off is directly connected to the Gun Powder Plot. The start of the War of the Roses, King Richard Banished Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) from the kingdom on Gosford Green. Also the Twins in the Tower as 2 Knights of the realm were hanged in 1495 at the top of the road, the site is now a pub! It it said that they were involved with the Lambert Simnel  Rebellion which was all about Lambert being an imposter of one of the twins. Not only that you may be interested to know that my road has direct links to King Arthur! ( I say with slight tongue in cheek) but seriously 4 miles up the road is the home of Sir Thomas Mallory! and it was his nephew that was hanged for the Lambert Simnel Rebellion. Its amazing what history is all around you when you take a serious look.

Anyway an idea struck me after seeing an interview with you online and that is ‘What or Who’ will you be writing about next, I know you have an idea but let me throw another idea into the mix. William the Marshall!  He I would think ibe right up your street. An amazing warrior living through the most historic of times, again sound familiar? Anyway I hope you don’t mind me writing to you.

Best Wishes.

Kim.

June 6th D-Day