{"id":4290,"date":"2010-11-17T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:46:16","slug":"picture-of-the-week-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/picture-of-the-week-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the Week #98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/potw\/111710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/potw\/111710-sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Sign on the tree in Hatfield Park at the spot where Elizabeth was told of the death of Mary I and that she was now Queen. Photo May 1998.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The text of the sign reads:<br \/>\n<center>THIS OAK TREE WAS PLANTED BY<br \/>\nHER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II<br \/>\nON 22nd JULY 1985<br \/>\nON THE SITE OF THE ORIGINAL OAK<br \/>\nTREE UNDER WHICH<br \/>\nHER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH I<br \/>\nHEARD OF HER SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>If I remember correctly, the original tree fell in a storm, which is why the replacement was planted in 1985 (a month before the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Tudor dynasty, I would add). I don&#8217;t remember seeing it, but I&#8217;ve been told that remains of the original tree are (or have been) on display at the property. From more recent photos I&#8217;ve seen tree has grown quite a bit since I saw it last (in May 2000) and the sign is now mounted higher and is easier to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on the tree in Hatfield Park at the spot where Elizabeth was told of the death of Mary I and that she was now Queen. Photo May 1998. The text of the sign reads: THIS OAK TREE WAS PLANTED BY HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II ON 22nd JULY 1985&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/picture-of-the-week-98\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13416,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/13416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}