THE TUDOR HEART JEWEL - A 500 YEAR HISTORY UNVEILED
If Jewels Could Talk with Carol Woolton
Carol Woolton
4.8 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Carol is given exclusive access to the secrets of perhaps the most exciting jewellery discovery of the century so far - the Tudor Heart, found in a field in Warwickshire and now to be acquired by the British Museum. With many thanks to Rachel King, Curator of Renaissance Europe & the Waddesdon Bequest.
Donate to the British Museum's Tudor Heart appeal here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-appeal
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Carol Wilton, the Voice of Jewelry. For my latest episode, I talk about the Tudor |
| 0:05.6 | Heart. This is a jewel that can be traced back to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and it was |
| 0:10.7 | lost to the world for 500 years, and will be on display for the first time this week at the British |
| 0:16.8 | Museum. We talk about the background history, how it was lost, what it was made for, who wore it. |
| 0:23.0 | So join me there, but I hope whichever episode you have queued up to listen to, you really enjoy. |
| 0:29.4 | And thank you for listening. |
| 0:31.1 | This episode is brought to you by Leibish, the coloured diamond jewellery experts. |
| 0:36.9 | Did you know that pink diamonds are amongst |
| 0:39.1 | the rarest diamonds and over 90% came from the Argyll Mine in Australia which closed in 2020? |
| 0:53.8 | I'm Carol Walton, the Voice of Jewelry, |
| 0:56.1 | and I'm thrilled today to be bringing you an episode from the British Museum. |
| 1:00.4 | You may hear a couple of bangs and crashes |
| 1:03.0 | because there was some building work in the room next door to where we're recording, |
| 1:07.9 | but I don't think you'll notice because the story you are about to hear |
| 1:12.0 | is so fascinating. Welcome to If Jules could talk. And we've got a really, really special |
| 1:19.9 | episode for you. I think this is a global exclusive, not just an exclusive, a global one. |
| 1:26.2 | And I am delighted to be at the British Museum |
| 1:29.0 | with Rachel King, the curator of Renaissance Europe |
| 1:32.7 | and the Wadsden Bequest. |
| 1:35.4 | And we're here to talk about, I think, quite possibly, |
| 1:39.1 | the most important Tudor duel in the world, |
| 1:42.4 | the Tudor Heart. |
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