The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur is a 1910 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book tells of Sir Geraint and his wife Enid, Sir Galahad and how he achieved the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. It is the last of Pyle's Arthurian series. In the story, Sir Geraint, along with Queen Guinevere and her court, woke up late on a day in which King Arthur is supposed to go hunting. They go to catch up with the
Geraint Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies Geraint Talfan Davies OBE DL (born 30 December 1943) is chairman of Welsh National Opera. He is also one of the co-founders of the Institute of Welsh Affairs and was its chairman from 1992 to 2014. He is a former chairman of the Arts Council of Wales. A journalist by training, he moved into broadcasting and was controller of BBC Cymru Wales from 1990 to 2000. Davies was born in Carmarthen in 1943 to Mary Anne Davies (d. 1971) and Aneirin Talfan Davies (d. 1980), a Welsh broadcaster, literary critic and poet. Educated at Bishop Gore Grammar