{"id":129,"date":"2006-06-09T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/parts-of-the-kings-table-found-at-westminster\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T22:50:33","slug":"parts-of-the-kings-table-found-at-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/parts-of-the-kings-table-found-at-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of the King&#8217;s Table Found at Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Australian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sections of the King&#8217;s Table, a symbol of royal power until it was smashed by Oliver Cromwell, have been found beneath the floor of the Palace of Westminster.<br \/>The elaborately carved stone table was used by kings and queens from the 13th century for coronation feasts and state banquets but disappeared under Puritan rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article<br \/>\nAnd another from the Scotsman<\/p>\n<p>The table was still around in Tudor times and Henry VIII used it for the wedding feasts after the marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.<\/p>\n<p>(original links have expired and have been removed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Australian: Sections of the King&#8217;s Table, a symbol of royal power until it was smashed by Oliver Cromwell, have been found beneath the floor of the Palace of Westminster.The elaborately carved stone table was used by kings and queens from the 13th century for coronation feasts and state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/09\/parts-of-the-kings-table-found-at-westminster\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12876,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}