Both were dressed for the occasion in gold and silver and heavily bejeweled.Īfter they dismounted, the two embraced each other and walked side by side into the French King’s pavilion. As the day began, the cannons boomed signaling the t…wo Kings’ arrivals. The meeting was held outside Calais, on the Golden Vale, between the English held town of Guisnes and the French town of Andres. Henry VIII ordered a temporal construction which was named the “palace of illusions”.
The name was given for the magnificence of the event. 495 years ago on June the 7th 1520, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Henry VIII and Francois I of France met on what became known as the “Field of Cloth and Gold”.
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