In 1066, William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel from Normandy and secured his royal title of king of England following his victory at the Battle of Hastings. Centuries later, Allied troops made the journey in reverse, sailing to the sandy shores of northern France in June 1944 to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany.
This parallel did not go unnoticed by England’s Lord Dulverton, a tobacco magnate who had trainedLord Dulverton commissioned and bankrolled his own 20th-century version of the Bayeux Tapestry— the famed medieval embroidery depicting the Norman conquest of England—in 1968.
