Little Kid is Rightwise Queen of England After Finding Sword

All hail Queen Matilda Jones.

By Lucy O'Brien

A little girl has pulled a 4 foot sword out of the lake where King Arthur was said to have thrown the legendary Excalibur.

Matilda Jones, age 7, was holidaying with her family in Cornwall where she pulled the blade out of Dozmary Pool. According to folklore, Dozmary Pool is where King Arthur threw the sword after the Battle of Camlann, where it was caught by the Lady of the Lake.

Matilda's father Paul told The Star that he had been telling Matilda and her sister the legend of King Arthur on the way to the lake, and initially didn't believe her when she said she'd found a sword while paddling.  "It was a blistering hot day and Matilda asked if we could go for a paddle," he told the publication. "She was only waist deep when she said she could see a sword. I told her not to be silly and it was probably a bit of fencing, but when I looked down I realised it was a sword. It was just there laying flat on the bottom of the lake."

Though legend has it that Excalibur will only be found by someone worthy of the British throne, Matilda's dad reckons it's probably just an old film prop.

Still, the story has thus far been much more well-received than Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, this year's first box office bomb.

Lucy O'Brien is Games & Entertainment Editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her on Twitter.

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