Well I may as well get in on the act. It's taken a long, long time, but it looks as if we nearly got here a couple of times before:
- MEPO 2/9484: police protection for transporting the Bayeux Tapestry - exhibition subsequently cancelled 1953
- FO 924/1628: commemoration of the Norman Conquest - possible exhibition of Bayeux Tapestry in London 1966
Obviously it didn't work out, but we've always been worried about the Tapestry:
- FO 371/40995/18: parliamentary question by Lady Apsley about the whereabouts of the Bayeux Tapestry, which was reported to have been removed by the Germans. In response, Sir J. Grigg answered that it was likely that the tapestry was in a store in the south of France with other objects from French National Museums July 1944.
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