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July 28, 1917 Love and the British Empire The pretty feet and shapely ankles of this Norman peasant girl made her the mother of William the Conqueror. Had Duke Robert of Normandy not been fascinated by the unconscious } display of these charms while the maid was playing in the brook, so we are told,—Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings, would not have fallen at Hastings—there would have been no Anglo- Norman dynasty in Britain—no England as we know it today— no British Empire rolling back the Teutonic hordes in the present great war for freedom and democracy. Thus we see how deep the roots of the present reach into the past. 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