The King of England and the president of France this week visited the British Museum to view the Bayeux Tapestry, which is on display in the UK for the first time since it was embroidered by a team of British needlewomen in Kent nearly 1,000 years ago.
It tells the story of the Battle of Hastings in a 230ft frieze featuring 626 figures – only six of them women – 190 horses, 37 ships and 33 buildings.
The tapestry is a unique account of a battle, the details of which might have been largely forgotten had it not become the subject of
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