'Rowena came into the room carrying a beautiful golden cup', c430 AD, (1905). Rowena, daughter of Hengist, offers wine to Vortigern, tribal king of the Britons. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd, (London and Edinburgh, 1905). The book gave a very biased and pro-British view of history.
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