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In order to pursue his ambitions in France, Henry VIII formed an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I. This painting records their meeting and the main events pertaining to Henry’s first campaign against the French in 1513.

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European Armour in the Royal Collection

An introduction to European armour in the Royal Collection.

JAMES STEPHANOFF (1789-1874)

The Old Guard Chamber in the Round Tower, Windsor Castle

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RCIN 922117

The earliest guidebook to Windsor Castle – Bickham's Deliciæ Britannicæ (1742) – includes a description of the Guard Room of the Round Tower. ‘Over the Door-Way, going to the Dining Room are two Coats of Mail, belonging formerly to two Warlike Princes’. This watercolour depicts the room in c.1818, with rifles, swords, helmets and pikes arranged on the walls, as well as two half-armours above the doorposts, just as Bickham described. It is thought that one of the armours is the Greenwich armour of Henry, Prince of Wales (RCIN 72831) because of its distinctive decoration with thistles. In the twentieth century the arms and armour in the Round Tower were removed to make way for storage of the Royal Archives.


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