British myth and ethos take two blows

First, new historical research says that Henry V’s big victory over the French at Agincourt wasn’t an upset at all, contra British royal and national mythology.

Second, could Pope Benedict XVI’s wide-open arms to Anglicans shatter the myth of the Church of England actually being that? I didn’t know that Catholics already outnumber Anglicans in the UK.

In any case, A.N. Wilson thinks it would be nothing but good news if the Church of England were, in fact, disestablished.