However, this was not the end of drama in England. King Alfred is one of the main characters in The Last Kingdom and like many on the show, he is based on a real-life figure from English history.
England, 872. A Saxon man, raised by Danes, must choose a side and play his part in the birth of a nation, alongside the man who would become known as King Alfred the Great.
In 870 AD the Danes attacked the only remaining independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Wessex, whose forces were commanded by Alfred's older brother, King Aethelred, and Alfred himself. In 871 AD ...
The show, which also spawned a movie, tells the story of the monarch Alfred the ... In The Last Kingdom's story, Uhtred plays a crucial role in uniting England under King Æthelstan, although ...