{"id":5676,"date":"2026-08-05T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-in-uk-for-first-time-in-900-years-under-police-guard-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:23:12","slug":"bayeux-tapestry-arrives-in-uk-for-first-time-in-900-years-under-police-guard-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-in-uk-for-first-time-in-900-years-under-police-guard-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayeux Tapestry arrives in UK for first time in 900 years under police guard | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/auPuLOy9HiY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in the UK, for the first time since it is believed to have been created here nearly 1,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At 02:50 BST, chaperoned from a secret location in northern France by a police guard, it was driven into a loading bay at the British Museum, which will put it on display in September.<\/p>\n<p>The 70m-long 11th Century embroidery depicts in 58 scenes events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest of England in 1066 &#8211; the moment that changed the country forever.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#France #UK #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=auPuLOy9HiY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in the UK, for the first time since it is believed to have been created here nearly 1,000 years ago. At 02:50 BST, chaperoned from a secret location in northern France by a police guard, it was driven into a loading bay at the British Museum, which will put it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,1748,368,162],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-news","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}