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Everyone loves a good “exiled monarch reclaims their throne” story. Anyways, after 1066 quite a few English nobles and apparently their retinues fled to Constantinople and many served in the Varangian guard.
So here’s an idea, sometime in the 11th century or so-roughly 1100-1200 AD, a group of Anglo Saxons elect a king, amongst themselves, or I dunno Harold Godwinson has some bastard child that flees to Constantinople if we want to make it more dramatic.
Anyway, this Anglo Saxon restorationist party petitions the Byzantine emperor to return to their homelands, possibly with a promise of a conversion to Orthodoxy, the emperor magnanimous accepts, and gives them ships and perhaps more men and resources.
They return to England, and in a decisive battle smash the descendant of William the Conqueror, and reinstall the Anglo Saxon kings.
A few main points, how could such an an above scenario be achieved and what preconditions would be necessary?
Also what the consequences be?
Thoughts? Ideas? Commentary?