@MrsB_inthehills Mourning my dead, burying the Saxons and waiting to hear back from the thegns in London

@MrsB_inthehills It would have been cruel not to.

@geoffrey_tobin Initially, no. Many fell with Harold, but his consort Edith the Fair later identified his body

I should renounce the title of Duke and assume the royal style, but my people believe that kingship only begins after coronation #Battle1066

Aside from Hastings and Pevensey, most towns remain English. I may still have battles to fight #Battle1066

Two weeks have passed. God knows I've given the English enough time to surrender. We march to war again #Battle1066

We sacked Romney and plundered the land. Now we've arrived at the supposedly impregnable Dover #Battle1066

Dover saw sense and surrendered. This is a very defensible town. I will build a great fortification on the headland! #battle1066

We have too many men and too little food. We must leave Dover before dysentery and disease wounds us #Battle1066

We will work our way towards London. We must cross the river at Rochester – this looks a good place to build a castle #Battle1066

.Edith of Wessex holds Winchester. As wife of Edward - who promised me the English crown – I must win her support #Battle1066

I have sent a vanguard to test London's defenders. The Thames is a natural barrier, I won't take the city without great loss #Battle1066

We will terror and starve London into submission by heading west and ravaging the counties surrounding it #Battle1066

My scouts report the earls Edwin and Morcar have left for the north. I will let them live – for now. I must take London #Battle1066

I have just received homage from the Archbishop of Canterbury at Wallingford! England is almost mine #Battle1066

We have travelled along the ancient Icknield Way to Hertfordshire. Here, at Berkhamsted, I will build another castle #Battle1066

My loyal men and new English subjects alike wish for me to be crowned king now. but I'd rather wait for Matilda of Flanders to join me #Battle1066

It has been decided. England cannot wait in limbo for a king - I will be crowned on Christmas Day at Westminster Abbey! #Battle1066

Both Englishmen and Normans will be in attendance at Westminster Abbey tomorrow to see me crowned! But my men will be on hand… #Battle1066

Saxons and Normans shouted oaths to me in their native tongue! I have finally been crowned! I am the King of England! #Battle1066