{"id":1633,"date":"2009-04-28T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2009-04-28T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:06:54","slug":"queen-honors-yeoman-of-the-guard-and-henry-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/queen-honors-yeoman-of-the-guard-and-henry-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen honors Yeoman of the Guard and Henry VII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Queen thanks Yeomen of the Guard on 500th anniversary of Henry VII&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p>The Queen expressed her thanks to the Yeomen of the Guard as she honoured the founder of the famous royal bodyguards.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More than 70 Yeomen &#8211; resplendent in their distinctive red and gold tunics, large white ruffled collars, scarlet stockings and flat brimmed black Tudor hats &#8211; gathered in Westminster Abbey in tribute to King Henry VII.<\/p>\n<p>Henry VII created the Queen&#8217;s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 500th anniversary of his death, the Queen placed a posy at his tomb in the Abbey&#8217;s Lady Chapel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/theroyalfamily\/5236663\/Queen-thanks-Yeomen-of-the-Guard-on-500th-anniversary-of-Henry-VIIs-death.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegraph: Queen thanks Yeomen of the Guard on 500th anniversary of Henry VII&#8217;s death The Queen expressed her thanks to the Yeomen of the Guard as she honoured the founder of the famous royal bodyguards. More than 70 Yeomen &#8211; resplendent in their distinctive red and gold tunics,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/queen-honors-yeoman-of-the-guard-and-henry-vii\/\">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":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-family","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}