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Historic love token lost for centuries gets permanent home at famous museum

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The Independent UK · Feb 10

British Museum raises £3.5m in four months to save pendant linked to Henry VIII

The London museum launched an appeal in October to save the Tudor Heart.

The Independent UK · Feb 10

British Museum successfully raises millions to save Henry VIII marriage artefact

Success of the campaign shows the power of history to spark the imagination, says museum director

The Independent UK · Feb 10

Random Musing: A brief history of the Church of England (as it gets its first woman Archbishop of Canterbury)

It begins, inevitably, with Henry VIII, who married Catherine but couldn’t produce a male heir. The Pope refused to annul the marriage because Catherine was the aunt of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor whose armies effectively controlled Rome — a man at whose snook the Pope could ill afford…

The Times of India · Jan 29

Why She Never Married Yet Ruled an Empire: The Virgin Queen’s Secret

Queen Elizabeth I was a monarch who reigned in England at a period of political threat, religious fragmentation, and power abuse. Elizabeth was single in contrast to the majority of queens, who got married to make alliances or have heirs. Neither was it a weakness nor a chance decision. It…

MyLifeXP · Jan 27

Suffolk house sold with ownership of a 14th century castle on the market for £1.4 million

This converted dairy barn is sold with the ruins of Mettingham Castle, which was once owned by Henry VIII

Evening Standard · Jan 16

Anne Boleyn painting is ‘actually a different royal’, claims historian

Off with her head? Painting in National Portrait Gallery’s collection may have been important political tool to shore-up Elizabeth I’s hold on power

The Independent UK · Jan 13

‘I look like Henry VIII - it’s a very different kind of honour, but I love it’ Sean Dyche on The Royal Dyche in Burnley

Sean Dyche was immortalised in his adopted Lancashire home after years in the Premier League with the Clarets

FourFourTwo · Dec 30, 2025

Daggers, dervishes, Rego and the world’s most expensive egg – the week in art

The British Museum is infused with Sufi spirit, Henry VIII’s storied Ottoman dagger gets its own show, Rego’s art is renewed and a Fabergé sets a new record

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist

The first scholarly biography in more than 100 years of the man who immortalised the Tudor court does not disappoint

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2025