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What Do All These Have in Common?
• Either commemorate Alfred the Great or his family.
• Many others exist, including some pubs.
• So, we have to ask why?
• And why if you had asked Winston Churchill, who was a
historian in his own right, would he have answered that Alfred
was truly the greatest English monarch.
• He is the only English monarch known as ”the Great”.
• Puts him on a par with Peter & Catherine the Great of Russia.