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Kevin Duckett, 49, discovered the centerpiece of King Henry VIII of England’s crown, destroyed by Oliver Cromwell more than 400 years ago.
Duckett was walking around with a metal detector when he found the jewelry in a field near Market Harbor in Northamptonshire. He immediately turned it over to the British Museum, where it is being studied. The price of the piece of gold is about 2 million pounds.
At first he thought it was some kind of aluminum foil from a cupcake. “It was too close to the surface. I knew from the color and the weight that it was pure gold,” he told the Sun.
Historians believe the crown was lost forever after Oliver Cromwell ordered it to be cast after abolishing the monarchy and beheading King Charles I in 1649.
The 344 gems that were in it individually sold for around 1,100 pounds at the time.
Duckett, who lives in Fleckney, Leicestershire, collected and cleaned the piece at home. He then realized it was Henry VIII after discovering the SH inscription on the base. It’s for Serine Henry.
The figure also has five fleurs-de-lis, stylized lilies associated with the monarchy. The original also featured figures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary with the child, and Saint George.
But Henry VIII eliminated them after separating from the Catholic Church and replaced them with the holy kings of England: Saint Edmund, Edward the Confessor, and Henry VI.
The crown was also used in the coronation of Charles I. When he lost the Battle of Naisby to Cromwell, it apparently passed by the place where the treasure was discovered.
If the British Museum confirms that the crown piece is authentic, Duckett will purchase it at a price set by an independent commission.
Henry VIII was one of the greatest kings in the history of England, ruling from 1509 to 1547.
He has six wives, two of whom he beheaded because they did not give birth to an heir.
He broke with the Catholic Church in Rome because of the Pope’s refusal to dissolve his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to marry his lover Ana Bolena, who eventually became his second wife.
This movement, known as the Reformation, proclaimed him supreme leader of the Church of England, leading to his excommunication from the Catholic Church.
The dissolution of the island’s monasteries and conventions meant a change in the cultural history of the empire.
Under his leadership, the British navy became dominant in Europe, from a very small number of ships to 50.
Otherwise, on the local stage, he is a tyrant who crushes all dissenters. Among those beheaded are his prime minister, Thomas Cromwell, his second wife, Anne Boleyn, and his fifth, Catherine Howard.
Like his predecessors, he tried to conquer France, but both campaigns failed.
He is known for self-medicating and even making his own medications. There is evidence of this in the British Museum.
The king was a musician and composer, possessing 78 flutes, 78 harps, and 5 bagpipes, with Jethro Tull doing versions of his songs.
He died of serious debt after spending far more than he received in taxes. Officially it owned the largest collection of tapestries in history, as well as 6,500 pistols.
At the beginning of his reign, he was a rather weak man, and at the end, a huge and fat man, described as a “real monster”.
He was succeeded by his son Eduardo VI.
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