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\n\tBillionaires, royalty, and presidents all want a closer look at the Bayeux Tapestry. On Wednesday evening, King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a private look at the nearly 70-meter-long embroidered cloth at the British Museum in London. The highly anticipated exhibition opens September 10 and is on view through to July 11, 2027.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a speech, King Charles said that the tapestry \u201ctells the story of the beginning of what I like to think of as the French side of my family\u2019s history in these islands,\u201d referring to the fact that he\u2019s a direct descendant of William, Duke of Normandy, who defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe spoke at length about the relationship between Britain and France. \u201cWe have defended our values together in times of peril: we continue to do so today across the world. May this Tapestry\u2014and the treasures that will travel in return\u2014stand as symbols not only of our shared past, but our shared future: a future woven, as it should be, by Britain and France together,\u201d said King Charles. \u201cThe tapestry\u2019s story is one of ambition and uncertainty, of oaths and journeys, of ships, councils, kings, comets and consequences. Yet it is not merely an English story, nor only a Norman one. Indeed, from the moment of its creation, it may have brought together our two peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe loan of the Bayeux Tapestry has been 96 years in the making. The loan request was first proposed in 1930; on a state visit to the UK in July 2025, Macron announced that the tapestry would be making its way to the UK. Macron said that the exhibition is a symbol of how \u201cwe are united\u201d and a \u201creminder of what our countries can do if they join forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLast month, The Guardian<\/em> reported that the British Museum privately hosted billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the tapestry. The visit was hosted by Charlotte Appleyard, the museum\u2019s director of development, on August 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/king-charles-emmanuel-macron-vip-visit-bayeux-tapestry-1234796876\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2292671868.jpg?w=1024″] Billionaires, royalty, and presidents all want a closer look at the Bayeux Tapestry. On Wednesday evening, King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a private look at the nearly 70-meter-long embroidered cloth at the British Museum in London. The highly anticipated exhibition opens September 10 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2126468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2126468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}