Then the pair were jointly “Stockholmed”, as Bristol Professor Sir Michael Berry, described it.

I went through a lengthy immigration process before I was allowed across the border.

Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do.

This cloth, known as the Veronica or the vera icon, was kept in St. Peter's in Rome, where its presence is documented with some certainty from the mid-twelfth century onward. At first, however, the existence of the Veronica was recorded not as an image but as a textile, a sudarium.