Tom Holland

Did he?

So the story goes.

See, Ruminyawi's got this bloke as a drum, but they weren't even particularly enemies.

He's just a former ally who was stabbed in the back.

I mean, it's a good lesson to others, isn't it?

You don't mess with them.

So with this kettledrum, he now rules in Quito as an independent warlord.

I mean, he's literally kind of the king in the north, Rumiñahui.

His problem, however, is now the Spanish are after him.

So the Spanish have heard rumours that Quito is just as rich as Cuzco, and they want its gold.

Dominic, is there someone else who has heard similar rumours, who we have met in a previous series?

One of the best people we've ever done on The Rest Is History is up there with Augustus the Strong, the Kaiser, and all the other big friends of the show with chequered pasts.

He is a man who loves a gilet.

He loves a great laugh.

He loves a massacre of indigenous people at a festival.

And he loves a weekend trip with the girls to Cornwall to rock or similar.

He climbed the Giralda in Seville.

He let himself down quite badly in Mexico.

He almost certainly went to Tabby's old school, Marlborough College.

He's Pedro de Alvarado.