# @bbcnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUldU3mAaE7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/55922136-bbcnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-10T17:10:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC News (@bbcnews) — https://gondola.cc/bbcnews

## Caption

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]
 
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