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King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table is it fact or mythology, does anyone really care. But the undeniable truth is King Arthur has excited the imitation of the population of the British Isles and Europe for over  fourteen hundred years. Since the late 500's male children were being the name Arthur. From the year 1138 when the tales were committed to paper from the oral history ,then again in1485 when the first printed editions of  Le Morte d'Arthur hit the streets people have dreamed of chivalrous Knights. Plus the masses of  painted and  carved Arthurian images  helped this legend to reach epic proportions. Camelot being synonymous with power and greatness. Who does not think of the Kennedy's when Camelot is mentioned.
During the mid 1500's so great was the artistic output in France that the Heraldry of many of Arthur's knights were designed for reference and conformity.
Today the the legend is stronger than ever with new books of fact and fiction coming from international publishers every month and having a global audience. Hollywood continues to keep the legend alive for us all by producing a new film every few years.    
The great modern development has been the new stories, focusing on the women of Camelot by the such authors as  Marion Bradley, Rosalind Miles, Mary Stewart etc
The looking for Arthur fractural books have also been published with a vengeance over the past few years, my remainder book shop have titles regularly . Over the last year these factual books have shown Arthur living in Wales, Anglesey, Scotland, Cornwall, North and South England and my last read ,he was a War Lord from Russia.. Who knows, will we ever have concrete evidence of his existence, does it really matter. Do we want the facts ,if he existed, he was probably a post Roman Warlord, not dressed in the full Excalibur type costume portrayed in the movies and paintings.

Sadly in the UK there is so much local pride to placing him in certain parts of the country, this can be put down to either nationalistic one-upmanship or even tourism, surely the Arthur legend is bigger than this petty origin ownership haggling.
I personally prefer the the stories the sorcery of Merlin and Morgan Le Fay, the stories about Lancelot, Gawaine and the other 100 knights, written by French, German, Italian and our own Islands authors, that's The Round Table. 

But it is still very fascinating to go to the Arthur sites around the UK. Hear and read the local stories. In many of these places it is easy to let your mind drift back in time and live the legend. Even to today in our crowded Isle many are desolate and full of mystery. Try standing by Tintagel Castle in mid winter with a howling sea gale, or by the supposed King Arthur grave at Glastonbury  in a typical English down pour.