King Harold swearing oath on holy relics to William, Duke of Normandy Wikimedia, CC BY As the Bayeux Tapestry comes to London, the year 1066 and the Norman Conquest are in the spotlight. The tapestry – an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long, created soon after the events it depicts – tells the story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and William of Normandy’s triumphant defeat of Harold Godwinson, King of England. The tapestry depicts William of Normandy as the victor, and Harold as a slipper