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The British Museum has raised £3.5m to keep a gold pendant linked to King Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Katherine (also Catherine) of Aragon. The central London museum launched a fundraiser so it could keep the Tudor Heart, found by a metal detectorist in a Warwickshire field in 2019. Research has revealed that the pendant may have been made to celebrate the betrothal of their two-year-old daughter Princess Mary to the eight-month-old French heir-apparent in 1518. The pendant unites the Tudor rose with Katherine's pomegranate symbol and features a banner that reads "tousiors", the old French word for "always". [Getty/ PA] Tap the link in BBCNews's bio to read why the museum had to raise the funds in the first place. #HenryVIII #KatherineOfAragon

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