Our Island Story, a celebration of 2,000 years of England's past. In that book, the sinking of the White Ship in the winter of 1120, and the resulting death of Prince William Adelin, heir to the English throne, was considered such an important tale that it was allocated an entire page - and a colour illustration.
I could not have imagined all those years ago that I would some day write my own bestselling account of this monumental maritime disaster - or that I would find myself afloat in Barfleur harbour with a team of archaeologists searching for the White Ship wreck.We know from contemporaneous accounts that the ship was white, or at least very light in colour.
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