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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Field of Cloth of Gold
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(7–24 June 1520) Series of meetings near Calais between *Henry VIII and *Francis I of France, famous for the splendour of the setting. Each king stayed in a temporary palace of timber and canvas; and there was much jousting and tilting and banqueting. Henry was expressing general goodwill rather than attempting an alliance, because he immediately afterwards engaged in similar but less lavish festivities in Kent with Francis's great rival, the Holy Roman Emperor *Charles V.
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