Thank you so much to Tamise for alerting me to the fact that Elizabeth I’s famous locket ring is on display right now. The ring isn’t generally on display as it is kept at Chequers, the official country residence of the Prime Minister, so this is your chance to see it. It is part of the ‘Gold: Power and Allure’ exhibition of the Goldsmiths’ Company.
More details can be found on Tamise’s blog post – click here – and on the exhibition page of the Goldsmiths’ Company website – http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/events/gold-power-and-allure/
The exhibition is on now and is running until 28th July.
On this day in history…
1535 – Execution of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Catholic martyr, by beheading – see Bishop John Fisher Executed
Beautiful, it holds many secrets, if only they could be unlocked.
that ring was a symbolic a part of elizbeth ,who she was and who she became isnt the picture in the locket anne boleyne perhaps the picture of anne boleyne was there to remind elizbeth why not to mary