This cloth, known as the Veronica or the vera icon, was kept in St. Peter's in Rome, where its presence is documented with some certainty from the mid-twelfth century onward. At first, however, the existence of the Veronica was recorded not as an image but as a textile, a sudarium.

Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do.

I went through a lengthy immigration process before I was allowed across the border.

Then the pair were jointly “Stockholmed”, as Bristol Professor Sir Michael Berry, described it.