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The Bayeux Tapestry is in England for the first time since it was made. The King calls it the Canterbury Embroidery.
Charles, Camilla, the Macrons and Andy Burnham walked its 70 metres at the British Museum on 2 September.
- Observed threads
- 6
- Source clusters
- 2
- Observed
- Updated
The loan
Britain first asked in 1931. Macron called eight years of talks 'something of a speed record'. It returns to Normandy once the Bayeux museum renovation is finished.
The visit
The King said 'we are united' and joked the work was probably commissioned in Normandy but stitched in Canterbury. It opens to the public on 10 September and runs to 11 July 2027.
The objection
David Hockney criticised the loan in January over physical and environmental risk to the medieval linen. Conservators plan scientific testing when it goes home.