Hampton Court: Gold & Glory

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On 7 June 1520, Henry VIII of England and François I of France met at the Field of Cloth of Gold. For three weeks on English soil in Northern France, the two Kings - and the 12,000 who accompanied them - feasted, jousted, and made merry. This party without parallel was a peace summit between the two countries, arranged by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

A new exhibition at Hampton Court, called Gold and Glory, explores this seminal event through paintings, objects, and manuscripts. In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Suzannah Lipscomb takes a tour around the exhibition with one of its curators, Dr. Alden Gregory.

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0:00.0	On the 7th of June 1520, Henry VIII of England and François I of France met at the
0:11.8	field of cloth of gold. For three weeks on English soil in Northern France, the two kings
0:18.4	and their entourage a total of around 12,000 people, the equivalent of the population of England's
0:24.5	second largest city at the time, feasted, jostled and made merry. This party without parallel
0:32.4	was not just an early modern glassdenberry, it was a peace summit between the two kings,
0:37.8	arranged by Cardinal Thomas Wharsey. Designed to demonstrate, as Professor Glenn Richardson
0:43.5	has argued, that both countries chose to make peace but had the financial capacity to go
0:49.6	to war, in fact within three years they were at war. A new exhibition at Hampton Court called
0:56.7	Gold and Glory explores the field of cloth of gold through paintings, objects and manuscripts.
1:04.3	Designed to mark the 500th anniversary of the field, it was, like so many things, delayed a year by
1:10.0	the pandemic. I went on location to meet one of the curators behind the new exhibition.
1:26.6	So I'm delighted today to be at Hampton Court just standing outside clock court with Dr.
1:33.5	Orden Gregory, curator of historic buildings here at Hampton Court, who I've known since he was
1:38.8	a wee strapling and starting out onto his PhD, but now he's all grown and knows all sorts of
1:45.8	things I don't know. So I'm going to learn from him today and we're going to talk about a
1:49.8	wonderful new exhibition at Hampton Court called Gold and Glory. Hello, Orden. Hello, welcome back to
1:54.6	Hampton Court. Thank you. It's lovely to be here. You might have noticed that Orden is slightly
1:58.8	muffled because he's already put his mask on. I'm about to put mine on, so if you hear us
2:02.7	sort of haze of cotton, I'm sorry about that, but we're being safe. Right, let's go up, shall we?
2:09.8	We're just going up spiral staircase into what used to be Walsy's apartment, or the Walsy
2:19.8	rooms as they were called. Yes, it's one of the lovely things about doing an exhibition at Hampton
2:23.4	Court is we can do these shows in historic spaces and as we walk around we'll talk about Walsy a
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