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Dear Bernard

Very much enjoyed the Uhtred books. Have you ever seen the Bedford (UK) War Memorial on the Embankment by the river Ouse?

https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/19782/War-Memorial-Bedford.htm.

Unusually the memorial statue is of a Saxon lady in a cloak. The sculptor was I have heard depicting a warrior queen from the dark ages. It seems to me a depiction of your ‘Lady of the Mercians’ commemorating her conquest of Bedford from the Danes. so she was not forgotten even 100 years ago

David Craigen