The cast have just finished filming the third series of The Last Kingdom, which will be released on Netflix later this year, and have been researching the history of the characters they play.ĭavid said they felt it was fitting to attend the service in Tamworth as a ‘nod’ to Aetheflaed and the important role she played in the making of England. The visiting cast were David Dawson, who plays King Alfred, Eliza Butterworth who plays his wife Aelswith, Timothy Innes who portrays their son Edward and Millie Brady who plays Aethelflaed.Īs well as attending the church service, the actors visited Tamworth’s new Aethelflaed statue on the roundabout outside Tamworth Railway Station, the old stone statue in the Castle Grounds and enjoyed a tour of Tamworth Castle. Guests at the service on June 12 included the current Earl of Wessex, HRH Prince Edward who is a descendant of King Alfred the Great, and the actors who play Aethelflaed and her family in the popular TV drama The Last Kingdom. The congregation at St Editha’s Church paid tribute to Lady of the Mercians, Aethelflaed, in the church she rebuilt, worshipped in and where her death would have been mourned exactly 1,100 years ago to the day.

Actors from TV’s The Last Kingdom were among the hundreds of civic dignitaries, historians, clergy and member of the royal family who came together in Tamworth to mark the 1,100th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential people in the town’s history.

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