The sword is the same size as Matilda (Picture: SWNS)

Long live Mathilda Jones – after finding a huge ‘Excalibur’ sword in the lake from the legend of King Arthur, she is technically the new Queen of England, right?

The seven-year-old schoolgirl was paddling in Dozmary Pool in Cornwall with her family recently when she saw something metallic in the water.

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Dad Paul, who had been telling his daughters about the legend of Arthur and Excalibur as they were travelling to the lake, first assumed it would be a bit of old fencing.

However when he reached down he realised Mathilda had discovered something much more regal – a four-foot sword.


Paul and Matilda Jones discovering the sword in Dozmary Pool (Picture: SWNS)

Don’t mess with the Queen (Picture: SWNS)

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Paul, who lives with his family in Doncaster, said: ‘It was a blistering hot day and Matilda asked if we could go for a paddle.

‘She was only waist deep when she said she could see a sword.’

He added that the weapon is 4 feet long, ‘exactly Mathilda’s height’.

Sadly, Mathilda probably won’t be heading to Buckingham Palace to claim the crow just yet, as Paul is fairly certain the sword is an old film prop.

The legend of Excalibur (short version) The legend of King Arthur tells the tale of his sword Excalibur, the holder of which is the true king (or queen) of Britain. The sword was given to him by the mythical ‘Lady of the Lake’, bringinghim good fortune and incredible combat skills. After he lost the sword in the Battle of Camlann, Arthur was mortally injured, and upon his death a knight (either Sir Griflet or Sir Bedivere) hurled it into the lake. However before it touched the surface a women’s hand reached out of the water to grasp it. The Lady of the Lake is said to have held the sword below Dozmary Pool, where Mathilda and her family were visiting, until the next person worthy of the British throne finds it. In some retellings of the legend Excalibur is the same sword a young Arthur pulled from the stone to be crowned King.

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Mathilda’s dad thinks the sword is an old film prop (Picture: SWNS)