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His closest followers now paid their last respects to William by all desertinghim, racing to the four corners of the kingdom to secure their land leaving the corpse to be lootedby the servants naked, bloated and beginning to putrefy on the monastery floor. So the man whospent his life taking whatever he could by whatever means, was finally robbed of everything,even his dignity.
Perhaps the hand of God had decided that this was a fitting end.As for his old antagonist, Harold, he certainly didn't stay buried on the shore facing the Channel,as some Norman historians suggested. Rumours had it that he'd escaped and was living as ahermit. But another story is much more likely to be the truth - that once it was safe, the femalesurvivors of the family took Harold's remains and had them interred here at Waltham Abbey.According to William and the Pope, Harold was supposed to have been a despoiler of theChurch, deserving of destruction. But the monks at Waltham didn't seem to agree, for theysecretly buried him and prayed for his soul.
Somewhere, then, beneath the columns and arches ofthis Romanesque church, is the last Anglo-Saxon king, literally part of the foundations ofNorman England.16.