And it’s sad to think that all that is left of those pre-civil war craftsmen’s work is in a painting and a single gold gilded ornate anointing spoon from King Henry III.

Wow! That is amazing!

At risk of having an argument in a KZfaq comments section, when do symbols of the present become history? The things destroyed were icons of powers that had been overthrown, should the allies have preserved Nazi architecture, or the swastika? Should the Germans not have torn down the Berlin wall? Should the Russians not have torn down statues of Lenin?

The Suffragettes planted a bomb in Westminster Abbey in 1914 and blew up the ancient Coronation Chair, King Edward's Chair. Although it was damaged (a corner was blown off), it and the 70 people inside the Abbey at the time survived.

​@@annacrow9716many of the churches in question were already centuries old when he destroyed them. Your argument doesn't hold sorry.

​@@annacrow9716also although the church was definitely guilty of bad things they also did hospitals and take care of poor people as their Bible says. You can't just take the bad without acknowledging the good.

royal wealth is now only the merest tip of the iceberg of modern wealth disparity. its been estimated that the 8 richest corporate plutocrats have more nominal wealth than half the global population combined. however, even if it was redistributed in some kind of socialist utopia we would require several planets for that nominal wealth to be expressed in resources. planetary limits mean the poor huddled masses have to stay poor. and shortly they will have to die, because the fossil fuels that support everybody, rich and poor alike in the ridiculously bloated overshoot human population that bloomed out of billions of gigawatts free detritus energy, will run out. and the global warming and environmental collapse that paid for their existence will also make human life untenable. human extinction is perhaps the greatest legacy of the tudors. it was when the rot started to set in. the british renaissance which led to the age of exploration and the scientific enlightenment, which spawned the industrial revolution, fractional reserve banking, capitalism and economic growth, the modern world, the great population explosion and the nuclear age, consumerism and the great acceleration of planetary destruction of mid 20th century and finally the greatest tragedy of all history, the 6th mass extinction of life on earth. we were not told that about the tudors at school lol

@Cait L. jealousy is a terrible and very ugly emotion. Get it go and I guarantee that your life will be much happier. Oh and BTW: billions of dollars are generated every year due to the British Royal Family who are patrons of a variety of charitable causes that help real people. So please tell me, what of significance have YOU done today? Aside from trolling Royal Family KZfaq videos. You can do better. Please get out and do something positive. Have a nice day. ✌

@Cait L. Ouch! LOL

Yes, I agree. It takes a special kind of moron to do all those things. It also takes a special kind of moron to destroy an irreplaceable piece of art/history like that crown. They should all have been flogged.

Bruh no one cares about your anti cultural and communistic rhetoric.

(shrug) your complex saying doesn't affect a thing to the loyal friend

What a incredible find! I can't imagine finding something with so much history!! Good for him!

Do you have a link? I would love to read about it.

The treasure hunter couldn't be allowed to keep it, no?

@@shena1256 I know, right? I can't even imagine the excitement

@@meeeka No, and he wouldn't try. It belongs in a museum, it is a really important artifact of English history. But, the treasure hunter was supposed to get a portion of the value of it, and it's worth like 2 million £ which is crazy!

I see it as Wosley generously presenting Hampton Court Henry due to the love he had in his heart for HRM 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 at least I am sure that's how Henry recalled it lol

​@@sacredlovetarot1971 Well, that's a way to see it, and no doubt it was Henry’s way.😂

Actually no Woolsey did not build it from scratch. He bought and expanded a pre existing house.

+Jory Adamson You're right, Cardinal Wolsey was the builder of Hampton Court Palace but he made the mistake of 'out doing' the king. Seeing his error he 'gave' the palace to Henry. As Cardinal Archbishop of York, Wolsey also had a palace called York Place. This was also confiscated by Henry VIII - and eventually became Whitehall Palace**. Whitehall Palace was destroyed by fire. Today, Whitehall is the site of Government Offices. **A piece of the palace, The Banqueting House (1622), has survived: It was from a window of this building that Charles I stepped out onto the scaffold on the 30th January 1649. A commemorative service is held every year in the Banqueting House. The oldest surviving royal equestrian bronze statue (Charles I) stands at the junction of Whitehall and Trafalgar Square. After the execution of King Charles, Parliament ordered its destruction. It was purchased by a royalist who hid it during the Commonwealth Republic and presented it to the returning king, Charles II at the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

Simon Frampton Wolsey died before Henry could give him the “chop”

M_ar X16 , Wolsey didn't deserve his end. But Henry the eighth built onto it he built the banqueting hall.

@@Cate7451 In Henry's eyes Wolsey deserved to be punished, not least for his unfortunate mistake in dictating a letter (transcribed by his servant Master Cromwell, make of *that* what you will) in which he spoke of "Ego et rex meus" - "I, and my king". Oops. If Wolsey had not conveniently fallen ill and died (I suspect poison) he would surely have been hanged. Not executed by the axe : his end would have been humiliating rather than dignified.

Peter Freeman , It wasn't so much whether he actually made a mistake but that it was a mistake because Henry said it was. Henry was angry about not being able to dissolve his first marriage. He was sorry to lose Cromwell later as he had no one to step into his roll, after Wolsey there was Cromwell, after Cromwell there was no one to run the country for him.

Probably gold plated impure gold

It cannot be solid gold because it would bend really easily and the heaviness of the stones would damage it and the shape of the head plus the weight of the stones would constantly alter the shape, usually gold has to be mixed with Cooper, silver, platinum or Palladium and the highest concentration wearable is 23kt. Probably his crown was made with both silver and gold because platinum was hard to use at the time.

@@mijalakis3 The current St Edward's Crown is solid 18 carat gold and weighs just over five pounds. The shape of the Crown is quite stable but it needs to be handled carefully. Also, only three persons are allowed to touch or handle St Edward's Crown: 1) The Sovereign of the United Kingdom 2) The Archbishop of Canterbury at the moment of Coronation 3) The Royal Jeweller, who always wears white gloves. Since St Edward's Crown is only used once at the moment of Coronation, it is very rarely handled, so it's very unlikely to have any problems. It did make an appearance recently in an interview with Her Majesty The Queen, here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpx3idRmt5azYYk.html

@@mijalakis3 loo

Not just that he apparently used this very video in his research to find out what it was!

the music SUCKS

They're the worst..

@Mary C I attempted to turn it down. Which immediately lead to me turning to back up to the loudest possible option due to the fact that I could not hear what was being said when they were actually speaking. Which lead to my ears practically bleeding. Too bad that the close captions did not work. ✌

The music is fine.

Dave Whiteside the. Music is lovely just not as a background.

Emily Mayer, I don't imagine his head would change much, not the top of it anyway. Lol ;o)

@@MrAdryan1603 I thought "fat head" was one of Ann Boleyn's secret pet names for him?

Lol

You don't gain much girth to the top of your head when you gain weight.

Yes, it’s in the Royal Pew of the Chapel Royal, I can see it every week when I attend

Gemstones were probably first faceted in the 13th century, but the cutting wasn't as complex as it is now because they just didn't have the tools that are available now. The round cabochon cutting and polishing was simpler to manage.

Not sure when but got to pet a couple at a zoo in Belgium once. Awful dense and soft fur I can absolutely understand why they would use it royally.

vistors fees most probs

About 70 percent of its income, nearly £70 million, comes from admission fees. The rest is income from its shops, donations, legacies and sponsorship.

Cait L. Stop being cringe.

There are what's known as the kings craftsmen. The jeweler in question would have been the kings own.

As for how long to amass them probably not long. He would have had giant boxes full of loose stones and such at his disposal. And his workers would have had the ability to simply take a stone from anywhere in the country they saw fit on his behalf really.

As far as taking the stones from the church, I guess it's possible. He wouldn't have been above it.

Sometimes they were rebuilt to make them more stable or comfortable.

The description of the piece says it has alternating crosses and fleurs de lis, five of each, making ten "points" total. There are four "points" where the diadem (not the right term, to be honest, that's an Imperial Arch) touch the Crown. Therefore, the Imperial Arch will mathematically, if the "points" are evenly distributed, only fall behind either two for the crosses or two of the fleurs, and the other two "points" will fall into gaps between the crosses and fleurs.

The video is called 'the making of'...

If I'm not mistaken, the "main" crown of the English kings was always called "St Edward's Crown" even if it had to be recreated from time to time. The crown in use at the time of King John - thought to be Edward tge Confessor's actual crown from the 11th century - may or may not have been lost with his other valuables in the Wash but, whatever was used during the reign of his son Henry III had the name "St Edward's Crown" named in honour of Edward the Confessor. Henry III, John's son, was a particular admirer of Edward the Confessor and promoted his veneration and erected the current shrine to him in Westminster Abbey which he rebuilt in the gothic style. Presumably his son Edward I "Longshanks" was named in the saint's honour. The Coronation Chair made for Longshanks, "King Edward's Chair", in the Abbey is sometimes known as "St Edward's Chair" because its decoration (possibly) depicted the saint and as it was kept close to the shrine.

Because the Civil War only ended when Charles I was executed in 1649. Up to that time, the Sovereign would have worn Henry VIII crown. Not until eleven years after the execution, in 1660, was a new set of regalia commissioned, which is the set used today.

Henry VIII children didn’t have children. Liar

No

Idk

for their coronations, yes tho I do wonder what that crown is on Elizabeth's coronation portrait (which doesn't resemble this crown at all)

Ikr looks rather large and comical. Lol.

+3636Clarence probably repocketed. hahahaha

@@madisonelectronic qqq11q1qqq1qaa

no ,they were probably reburied .............

The original was described to be made of solid gold, But gold is really really expensive today. So it would make sense costwise that the actual recreation would just be gold plated silver.

I do find I odd they did silver plated with gold. If they sourced and cut and polished all new gems and pearls, and pretty good sized ones at that, then perhaps that’s where the budget went? However there’s more than enough scrap gold to be had and fashioned into a crown, any decent pawn broker could easily sell you a bag full of enough odds and ends to get melted.

It was melted down or sold by Cromwell

If you're into it, you're already doing it. So if you feel that just do it to the end :>

No but that’s hilarious

it's not the centerpiece, it's one of the enameled figures in one of the _fleurs-de-lys_ (which replaced the Christs) FYI: at one point the Black Prince's Ruby was the top centerpiece of this crown

It was made circular, until the time of George III who demanded it be made oval.

Fool Official if you notice at the end credits, a piece written by Henry himself was used in this video. I'm not sure, but it could very well be Henry's song that you are referring to. He wrote a few apparently and I have no idea if he was any good. I think Greensleeves has never been proven as his although everyone believes it to be.

It is "Complete Music of Henry VIII" by Sirinu. The Track you heard was: Though Sum Saith That Yough Rulyth me - you can find it on Itunes

Mike Alman very true

You're absolutely right! What a mistake!!!

it doesnt.

Well now, it was an appropriate crown for such a morbidly obese King. I am sure that oozing wound upon his royal leg had an aphrodisiac quality upon young Anne of Cleves.

+aine71 where did they get their money from? The same place your president gets his money today ..................... from taxes. NB: Every piece of the British Crown Jewels belongs to the British State - ie none of it is the personal property of the king or queen. The British monarchy has been "constitutional" since 1688 when "absolutism" was abolished. It took a revolution for the French almost 100 years to abolish absolutism.

The Bill of Rights Act (1689) is the specific legislation you are referring to. The constitutional position was not resolved in 1688, it was finally resolved in 1689 with the deposition of King James II and VII, and the aforementioned legislation. This period of English and Scottish history is commonly referred to by historians as the 'Glorious Revolution'.

the Crown, fittingly.

they got the money from charging people to visit the palaces.Historic Royal Palaces isn't the same as the Royal Family. The royals never use Hampton Court, etc. It makes its own money so likely this had zero to do with taxpayer money.

@@caligulalonghbottom2629 It didn't have anything to do with the taxpayers. Historic Royal Palaces makes about 70 per cent of its money from admissions. The rest is retail income, donations and sponsorship.