This is the compelling story of the family that has dominated the throne of Britain for the last twelve hundred years. In the pursuit of their ambitions, they seldom hesitated in allowing the murder of those who stood in their way, the destruction of their crops and homes, the slaughter of their animals and the rape of their wives and daughters. Nor did many restrain their impulses in the licentiousness of their private lives or the creativity of their marital arrangements.

CHAOTIC INHERITANCE is a serious attempt to catalogue the lives of the key members of the forty generations in the direct line between the early kings of Wessex and the current royal family. By restricting the narrative to well-documented facts rather than fanciful descriptions of events or imagined emotional states or opinions, the reader is enabled to form their own opinions about the members of the line and their impact on those around them.