{"id":417451,"date":"2026-02-10T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:37:07","slug":"british-museum-to-keep-pendant-linked-to-henry-viii-after-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417451\/","title":{"rendered":"British Museum to keep pendant linked to Henry VIII after campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum was keen to keep the Tudor Heart as it believed there to be few surviving artefacts related to Henry VIII&#8217;s marriage to Katherine of Aragon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the appeal, it said, more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause, helping it raise just over 10% of its \u00a33.5m goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also received \u00a31.75m from The National Heritage Memorial Fund, which aims to save the UK&#8217;s most outstanding, at-risk heritage treasures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other donors include the charity Art Fund, the Julia Rausing Trust and The American Friends of the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported our campaign,&#8221; Cullinan said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This beautiful survivor tells us about a piece of English history few of us knew, but in which we can all now share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Thurley, chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, said: &#8220;The Tudor Heart is an extraordinary insight into the culture of Henry VIII&#8217;s court, and I am delighted that Memorial Fund support will enable it to go on public display.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum hopes to formally include the pendant in the collection later this year, and has plans for it to tour the UK in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The museum was keen to keep the Tudor Heart as it believed there to be few surviving artefacts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-417451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}