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Prince Edgar the Ætheling's claim was that he was the closest blood relative to King Edward. In fact, apart from Edgar there were no other male members of the House of Wessex (the royal family) alive in 1066. Edgar was the great-nephew of Edward the Confessor.

Harold II may have been descended in the male line from Æthelræd I, King of Wessex (865-871AD) but this has never been proved.

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