The making of Henry VIII's Crown
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2012
- See how Henry VIII's magnificent Imperial Crown was re-created for display at Hampton Court Palace from 27 October 2012. Destroyed after the English Civil War, it has been painstakingly re-created by independent charity Historic Royal Palaces and the Crown Jeweller's master craftsmen using new research and historic records and paintings. This glittering symbol of Henry's legacy will be displayed in the Royal Pew at Hampton Court Palace, allowing visitors to enjoy access to the balcony for the first time in seven years.
The amount of sheer work that went into making the original must've been enormous. Just unimaginable..They must've been expert craftsmen.
And it’s sad to think that all that is left of those pre-civil war craftsmen’s work is in a painting and a single gold gilded ornate anointing spoon from King Henry III.
I love history so I think it is sad when anything is destroyed. I am glad you did the recreation of the crown.
(shrug) your complex saying doesn't affect a thing to the loyal friend
One of the 3 kings around his crown has very recently been found under a tree by a metal detector, cannot wait for an update on that, wouldn’t it be amazing to display this alongside the replica, as it is something Henry himself would have touched and admired
Wow! That is amazing!
What is more of a loss is all the monasteries that this king had destroyed forever and the castles that Cromwell had knocked down
royal wealth is now only the merest tip of the iceberg of modern wealth disparity. its been estimated that the 8 richest corporate plutocrats have more nominal wealth than half the global population combined. however, even if it was redistributed in some kind of socialist utopia we would require several planets for that nominal wealth to be expressed in resources. planetary limits mean the poor huddled masses have to stay poor. and shortly they will have to die, because the fossil fuels that support everybody, rich and poor alike in the ridiculously bloated overshoot human population that bloomed out of billions of gigawatts free detritus energy, will run out. and the global warming and environmental collapse that paid for their existence will also make human life untenable. human extinction is perhaps the greatest legacy of the tudors. it was when the rot started to set in. the british renaissance which led to the age of exploration and the scientific enlightenment, which spawned the industrial revolution, fractional reserve banking, capitalism and economic growth, the modern world, the great population explosion and the nuclear age, consumerism and the great acceleration of planetary destruction of mid 20th century and finally the greatest tragedy of all history, the 6th mass extinction of life on earth. we were not told that about the tudors at school lol
@Cait L. jealousy is a terrible and very ugly emotion. Get it go and I guarantee that your life will be much happier. Oh and BTW: billions of dollars are generated every year due to the British Royal Family who are patrons of a variety of charitable causes that help real people. So please tell me, what of significance have YOU done today? Aside from trolling Royal Family CZcams videos. You can do better. Please get out and do something positive. Have a nice day. ✌
@Cait L. Ouch! LOL
Yes, I agree. It takes a special kind of moron to do all those things. It also takes a special kind of moron to destroy an irreplaceable piece of art/history like that crown. They should all have been flogged.
Bruh no one cares about your anti cultural and communistic rhetoric.
The model gives such an air of humility, much unlike what I imagine of H the 8th.
Between Henry VIII destroying ancient monasteries and Cromwell destroying Royal Regalia, I honestly can't tell which is worse. History, no matter of what form, should never be destroyed.
At risk of having an argument in a CZcams comments section, when do symbols of the present become history? The things destroyed were icons of powers that had been overthrown, should the allies have preserved Nazi architecture, or the swastika? Should the Germans not have torn down the Berlin wall? Should the Russians not have torn down statues of Lenin?
The Suffragettes planted a bomb in Westminster Abbey in 1914 and blew up the ancient Coronation Chair, King Edward's Chair. Although it was damaged (a corner was blown off), it and the 70 people inside the Abbey at the time survived.
@@annacrow9716many of the churches in question were already centuries old when he destroyed them. Your argument doesn't hold sorry.
@@annacrow9716also although the church was definitely guilty of bad things they also did hospitals and take care of poor people as their Bible says. You can't just take the bad without acknowledging the good.
Funny how Baroque music is always used to portray stately "Royal" music, but wasn't even played until at least 60 years after Henry's death.
1:23-1:26 "Hampton Court was created by the Tudors as a place of royal ceremony." Hampton Court Palace was in fact created by Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Henry's Lord Chancellor -- and extorted from Wolsey by Henry upon the former's fall from grace.
I see it as Wosley generously presenting Hampton Court Henry due to the love he had in his heart for HRM 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 at least I am sure that's how Henry recalled it lol
@@sacredlovetarot1971
Well, that's a way to see it, and no doubt it was Henry’s way.😂
Actually no Woolsey did not build it from scratch. He bought and expanded a pre existing house.
Oh my goodness....a treasure hunter with a metal detector just found one of the original golden figures from this crown!
What a incredible find! I can't imagine finding something with so much history!! Good for him!
Do you have a link? I would love to read about it.
The treasure hunter couldn't be allowed to keep it, no?
@@shena1256 I know, right? I can't even imagine the excitement
@@meeeka No, and he wouldn't try. It belongs in a museum, it is a really important artifact of English history.
But, the treasure hunter was supposed to get a portion of the value of it, and it's worth like 2 million £ which is crazy!
Nice recreation! Too bad the original is gone though.
I could easily have watched an hour of this content! Lovely video.
I was always under the impression that Hampton Court Palace was orginally created for Cardinal Wolsey...
+Jory Adamson You're right, Cardinal Wolsey was the builder of Hampton Court Palace but he made the mistake of 'out doing' the king. Seeing his error he 'gave' the palace to Henry.
As Cardinal Archbishop of York, Wolsey also had a palace called York Place. This was also confiscated by Henry VIII - and eventually became Whitehall Palace**. Whitehall Palace was destroyed by fire. Today, Whitehall is the site of Government Offices.
**A piece of the palace, The Banqueting House (1622), has survived: It was from a window of this building that Charles I stepped out onto the scaffold on the 30th January 1649.
A commemorative service is held every year in the Banqueting House. The oldest surviving royal equestrian bronze statue (Charles I) stands at the junction of Whitehall and Trafalgar Square.
After the execution of King Charles, Parliament ordered its destruction. It was purchased by a royalist who hid it during the Commonwealth Republic and presented it to the returning king, Charles II at the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.
Simon Frampton Wolsey died before Henry could give him the “chop”
M_ar X16 , Wolsey didn't deserve his end. But Henry the eighth built onto it he built the banqueting hall.
@@Cate7451 In Henry's eyes Wolsey deserved to be punished, not least for his unfortunate mistake in dictating a letter (transcribed by his servant Master Cromwell, make of *that* what you will) in which he spoke of "Ego et rex meus" - "I, and my king". Oops. If Wolsey had not conveniently fallen ill and died (I suspect poison) he would surely have been hanged. Not executed by the axe : his end would have been humiliating rather than dignified.
Peter Freeman , It wasn't so much whether he actually made a mistake but that it was a mistake because Henry said it was. Henry was angry about not being able to dissolve his first marriage. He was sorry to lose Cromwell later as he had no one to step into his roll, after Wolsey there was Cromwell, after Cromwell there was no one to run the country for him.
It's nice that people show an interest in our ancestor.
Thank you for sharing this. Well done!
A beautiful crown!
I enjoyed the video very much. Thank you for sharing. 😊
0:25 such beauty "WOW"!
Thanks for uploading this. I'd like to see an entire documentary on this particular crown.
Wow! Very beautiful! I wish I had one haha
thank you !!
And now they have a piece of it thanks to a metal detector one of the kings has been found.
Not just that he apparently used this very video in his research to find out what it was!
1:00 Dayum those eyes are the best jewels in the video.
Great documentary. But completely ruined by overly loud, excessively shrill music fading in and out every 20 seconds or so, necessitating lunging for the volume control every time. I guess the producers thought that the content wasn't strong enough to stand alone, so they added acoustic glitter to distract the audience.
If it's solid gold, as opposed to gold leaf, then it would have been very heavy.
Maybe that is what he meant when he spoke of lifting the heavy burden from his head. Poor joke, I know.
Probably gold plated impure gold
It cannot be solid gold because it would bend really easily and the heaviness of the stones would damage it and the shape of the head plus the weight of the stones would constantly alter the shape, usually gold has to be mixed with Cooper, silver, platinum or Palladium and the highest concentration wearable is 23kt. Probably his crown was made with both silver and gold because platinum was hard to use at the time.
@@mijalakis3 The current St Edward's Crown is solid 18 carat gold and weighs just over five pounds. The shape of the Crown is quite stable but it needs to be handled carefully. Also, only three persons are allowed to touch or handle St Edward's Crown: 1) The Sovereign of the United Kingdom 2) The Archbishop of Canterbury at the moment of Coronation 3) The Royal Jeweller, who always wears white gloves. Since St Edward's Crown is only used once at the moment of Coronation, it is very rarely handled, so it's very unlikely to have any problems. It did make an appearance recently in an interview with Her Majesty The Queen, here it is: czcams.com/video/H6GVq5R0O1U/video.html
@@mijalakis3 loo
That sure is some bling!
Please enable subtitles!
Note the painting "from life" shows the cloth cap as blue/green, 3:27, and the reconstruction as purple, one assumes from the written description.
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Either they made it too big or the real King Henry had a huge head!
Very informative. Could do without the high volume choir.
the music SUCKS
They're the worst..
@Mary C I attempted to turn it down. Which immediately lead to me turning to back up to the loudest possible option due to the fact that I could not hear what was being said when they were actually speaking. Which lead to my ears practically bleeding. Too bad that the close captions did not work. ✌
The music is fine.
Dave Whiteside the. Music is lovely just not as a background.
It was. He "gifted" it to Henry.
I wonder what Henry would have thought of "Zadok the Priest" (I believe was composed for one of the Georges' coronations?)! An amazing piece of music - mind, what baroque isn't amazing?
Great series and fascinating recreation and how they achieved it. Is it on display at Hampton Cout? I must have missed it on my last visit there back in 2019. Hope to re-visit in 2021.
Yes, it’s in the Royal Pew of the Chapel Royal, I can see it every week when I attend
I would love to have my own copy of this crown myself
I love the diff in the gems. When did they start to facet them? I noticed all older gems are round?
Gemstones were probably first faceted in the 13th century, but the cutting wasn't as complex as it is now because they just didn't have the tools that are available now. The round cabochon cutting and polishing was simpler to manage.
@ 0:46 Check out that extravagant Codpiece though! Too funny!
That crown was worn by my 3rd great grandmother's 8th great grandfather Henry VIII
Henry VIII children didn’t have children. Liar
Who is the THIRD saint mentioned to be on the crown? You have Edward the Confessor; Saint Edmund; and (?) Henry the VI of Lancaster is it ? There is no mention of the Virgin Mary on there and it was thought she was depicted in a minute sculpture as well. . . Can anyone answer that?
What kind of budget does Historic Royal Palaces have? This crown looks like it must’ve cost a pretty penny.
vistors fees most probs
About 70 percent of its income, nearly £70 million, comes from admission fees. The rest is income from its shops, donations, legacies and sponsorship.
Wonderful video. I wonder if they had to altered the original when Henry went from fit to fat.
Emily Mayer, I don't imagine his head would change much, not the top of it anyway. Lol ;o)
@@MrAdryan1603 I thought "fat head" was one of Ann Boleyn's secret pet names for him?
Lol
You don't gain much girth to the top of your head when you gain weight.
It's a lovely recreation. It's a shame the real one was destroyed.
Cait L.
Stop being cringe.
the music is too loud & inappropriately placed. can not turn down the sound because voices are then gone too.
Diamond, emerald, sapphire and pearls in different sizes - they're mainly from Sri Lanka and Madagascar. Interesting places! I can imagine the jewels were imported through the seas and pearls from the middle east. This crown doesn't have the ermine by the way. I wonder when the royal craftsmen started to use the fur of stoats for the crowns. Some people say the ermine was used from the 15th century by the Catholic monarchs, which is perhaps why Henry Vlll didn't include it for decoration? ?
Not sure when but got to pet a couple at a zoo in Belgium once. Awful dense and soft fur I can absolutely understand why they would use it royally.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if this crown was used for the upcoming coronation.
The fit is quite interesting, although I should think authentic.
Do we assume that Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth all wore their father's crown?
No
Idk
for their coronations, yes
tho I do wonder what that crown is on Elizabeth's coronation portrait (which doesn't resemble this crown at all)
Why do some images of the recreation have the struts and diadem extending from the Fleur-de-lis and some images where they extend from the crosses?
Sometimes they were rebuilt to make them more stable or comfortable.
The description of the piece says it has alternating crosses and fleurs de lis, five of each, making ten "points" total. There are four "points" where the diadem (not the right term, to be honest, that's an Imperial Arch) touch the Crown. Therefore, the Imperial Arch will mathematically, if the "points" are evenly distributed, only fall behind either two for the crosses or two of the fleurs, and the other two "points" will fall into gaps between the crosses and fleurs.
Lots of people being salty in the comments about how a crown looked then lol
Interesting video, btw.
3) questions: 1) In KH8's day to whom would he have outsourced the manufacture or crafting if his crown to? 2) How long would it have taken him to amass all the jewels necessary to actually make his crown? 3) Could the jewels have come about after the dissolution of the monasteries when, H-- effectively 'helped himself' to the fortunes of the church?
There are what's known as the kings craftsmen. The jeweler in question would have been the kings own.
As for how long to amass them probably not long. He would have had giant boxes full of loose stones and such at his disposal. And his workers would have had the ability to simply take a stone from anywhere in the country they saw fit on his behalf really.
As far as taking the stones from the church, I guess it's possible. He wouldn't have been above it.
The crown in the painting is completely different than the repro shown a minute later by the model.??
Hi, can someone explain me what’s the difference between Tudor’’s crown and Saint-Edward’s crown ? Thank you !
If I'm not mistaken, the "main" crown of the English kings was always called "St Edward's Crown" even if it had to be recreated from time to time. The crown in use at the time of King John - thought to be Edward tge Confessor's actual crown from the 11th century - may or may not have been lost with his other valuables in the Wash but, whatever was used during the reign of his son Henry III had the name "St Edward's Crown" named in honour of Edward the Confessor. Henry III, John's son, was a particular admirer of Edward the Confessor and promoted his veneration and erected the current shrine to him in Westminster Abbey which he rebuilt in the gothic style. Presumably his son Edward I "Longshanks" was named in the saint's honour. The Coronation Chair made for Longshanks, "King Edward's Chair", in the Abbey is sometimes known as "St Edward's Chair" because its decoration (possibly) depicted the saint and as it was kept close to the shrine.
Do we have a record of the names of the jewlers who actually made it?
That choral music in the background would have been awesome, if they would have kept it at the same volume all the way through, but having it swell to nearly eardrum shattering levels between speakers made this almost unwatchable.
Crowns aren't round. They're slightly oval to fit the monarchs head. This crown doesnt fit. In fact, it makes the "Henry" actor look like he's trying on his daddy's hat.
Ikr looks rather large and comical. Lol.
I'm mad about gems & jewelry and Tudor history and wanted very much to hear about the stones in Henry's crown, along with their relative quality & expense (compared to the originals & where they were sourced & shaped). Wanted to hear more about the making of the crown with old methods and SEE more of the actual crown, instead of gliding camera shots that blur the fleeting image (and some actor). What did it weigh? Cost? How long did it take to make with archaic methods? Did Elizabeth wear it? Henry's other children? Why focus a camera on an academic describing the crown, instead of SHOWING IT in still photographs so it can be truly observed? Likewise, the personal feelings of the people involved are nice, but with so little information about the actual project, I'm already frustrated and it's just annoying. Congrats, you got to do something wonderful that none of us will. Would you mind sharing the process? This program could have been a fascinating hour, or more, but the details remain private.
Oh academia. Forever more interested in your own pride in involvement than sharing information & actually teaching. This was more about the participants than the crown & it makes me very angry that you're keeping the details for yourselves, you self congratulatory, arrogant elitists.
The video is called 'the making of'...
Wait? I thought they still had St Edward's Crown until the civil war? So why would Charles I be painted with Henry VIII's crown?
Because the Civil War only ended when Charles I was executed in 1649. Up to that time, the Sovereign would have worn Henry VIII crown. Not until eleven years after the execution, in 1660, was a new set of regalia commissioned, which is the set used today.
great video but why is the music so loud lol
I am wondering if the depiction at :43 is a truer image of him that what we normally get. By all accounts he was close to 400 pounds...28.5 stone in England
it's. in sync on my pc
did anyone come here after reading an article about some amateur treasure hunter finding one of those religious figurines from the actual crown... was worth $2 million pounds
No but that’s hilarious
What happened to this crown?
It was melted down or sold by Cromwell
I didn’t get the first part describing the crown. Six What?
I am surprised the crown was made of silver and not solid gold. Too expensive for a reproduction? Or would solid gold have been too heavy? What was the original crown made of?
The original was described to be made of solid gold, But gold is really really expensive today. So it would make sense costwise that the actual recreation would just be gold plated silver.
I do find I odd they did silver plated with gold. If they sourced and cut and polished all new gems and pearls, and pretty good sized ones at that, then perhaps that’s where the budget went? However there’s more than enough scrap gold to be had and fashioned into a crown, any decent pawn broker could easily sell you a bag full of enough odds and ends to get melted.
The recreated crown looks abnormally large.
Wondering if the jewels were repurposed..
+3636Clarence probably repocketed. hahahaha
@@madisonelectronic qqq11q1qqq1qaa
no ,they were probably reburied .............
Did his daughter Elizabeth I wear that huge crown? They would have to have re-sized it?
The design reminds me of a gingerbread house.
This makes me wanna become a historian 😶😶
If you're into it, you're already doing it. So if you feel that just do it to the end :>
(It's weird, but that jeweler looks a lot like Brian Blessed!)
Would have made an excellent defense weapon as a last resort 😁
Hope it appears in the Coronation of King Charles III, even if it is not worn. 😅
Ecce corona tuam.
English civil war Parliament melted the crown down for coins. So sad
And sold the jewels
Henry VII made a new crown. Why was a new one needed?
Now they just found the center piece to the Crown look it up!
it's not the centerpiece, it's one of the enameled figures in one of the _fleurs-de-lys_ (which replaced the Christs)
FYI: at one point the Black Prince's Ruby was the top centerpiece of this crown
What's the music playing at 2:06 ?
Fool Official if you notice at the end credits, a piece written by Henry himself was used in this video. I'm not sure, but it could very well be Henry's song that you are referring to. He wrote a few apparently and I have no idea if he was any good. I think Greensleeves has never been proven as his although everyone believes it to be.
It is "Complete Music of Henry VIII" by Sirinu. The Track you heard was: Though Sum Saith That Yough Rulyth me - you can find it on Itunes
I have read the comments. WHY NOT FEED THE POOR? EDUCATE THEM? HELL NO, RIGHT?
i want that crown
Three Christs?! John Cleese would want a word with you.
The audio in this production is disturbing. Could have been entertaining if one didn't constantly have to have a hand on volume control.
It would not have been completely round and stuck off his temples like that. The crown shown looks horribly uncomfortable and would be cutting into the skin where it makes contact with the skull and forehead.
It was made circular, until the time of George III who demanded it be made oval.
bling bling king
Henry VIII was a good king early on, but became despicable. Some 80,000 people were executed during his reign, yet it's his daughter Mary who's called "bloody" because she had some 300 people executed during hers. Though I'm sorry that the original crown was destroyed by Cromwell (another fanatic pig of a man) it's fitting in a way that it was. Arrogant, pompous Henry VII - who had many killed; who wrenched an entire nation away from its over 1,000 year old spiritual and religious heritage; who allowed the destruction of churches, monasteries, shrines, memorials, artwork, entire libraries and more - ended up buried in a shared crypt under a floor, not in a magnificent tomb that he had designed. He lost that, and his crown was destroyed. Also, before his death, he made provisions to have Masses said for the sake of his soul until the end of time. Protestants ended that arrangement a year after his death. Ironically, Henry also made arrangements to have an order of English nuns pray for his soul until the end of time. With the dissolution that he unleashed, some of those nuns fled to France, where their spiritual descendants still pray for the king to this day.
Was für eine Pracht . Jedoch das Volk hungerte.
Doesn't anyone realize that the Fleur de lis goes under the arches, instead of the crosses?
You're absolutely right! What a mistake!!!
it doesnt.
Personally, Whilst I'm sure the very best Goldsmiths, stone setters, etc were used, I think it's just ugly!
would happily watch a documentary on it being recreated though.
Mike Alman very true
Dooon’t talk over the parchment, you’ll be spitting acidic saliva 😫
0:43 The original Crocs
I see people are knocking Oliver Cromwell's destruction of many things - they were people of their day! I find it sad that many things have been destroyed throughout history, but that's what happened. We have to put everything into historical context before we can criticise what they did! In 100+ years time people then may look at us and criticise what we have done because cultures and societies shift and move with the times!
Why is it so big around? Huge head?
I wonder if the music on here irritated the maker of this film also!!???
But, surely, this crown is way too big to wear. It looks way to wide for anyone to wear.
Why such loud choral singing throughout?
The music is a bit much.
Comically over large in diameter
Well now, it was an appropriate crown for such a morbidly obese King. I am sure that oozing wound upon his royal leg had an aphrodisiac quality upon young Anne of Cleves.
Where did they get their money from?
+aine71 where did they get their money from? The same place your president gets his money today ..................... from taxes.
NB: Every piece of the British Crown Jewels belongs to the British State - ie none of it is the personal property of the king or queen. The British monarchy has been "constitutional" since 1688 when "absolutism" was abolished.
It took a revolution for the French almost 100 years to abolish absolutism.
The Bill of Rights Act (1689) is the specific legislation you are referring to. The constitutional position was not resolved in 1688, it was finally resolved in 1689 with the deposition of King James II and VII, and the aforementioned legislation. This period of English and Scottish history is commonly referred to by historians as the 'Glorious Revolution'.
the Crown, fittingly.
they got the money from charging people to visit the palaces.Historic Royal Palaces isn't the same as the Royal Family. The royals never use Hampton Court, etc. It makes its own money so likely this had zero to do with taxpayer money.
@@caligulalonghbottom2629 It didn't have anything to do with the taxpayers. Historic Royal Palaces makes about 70 per cent of its money from admissions. The rest is retail income, donations and sponsorship.
This video would be more enjoyable if the music was turned down in comparison to the voice level. I had to keep.turning the voices up just turn the volume down during the chapel music.
Dhinchak दूल्हा ।
Funny that the music becomes too loud and overbearing when showing the crown. Describes the object well. Honestly though, do we really mourn the loss of one self-important knob’s display of disgusting wealth?
wow what an elaborate way to say "I have erectile dysfunction"
You made it too big!