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The Bayeux Tapestry has to Britain for the first time in more than 900 years. The famed, 68-metre-long tapestry is an embroidered artwork and important historical document. It 58 events the successful military invasion and takeover of England in 1066 by France's Duke William of Normandy. It the death of England's King Harold II, who was in the eye by an arrow at the Battle of Hastings. Historians the tapestry was in England as a gift for William. For the past 900 years, it has been in Bayeux, France. It now at the British Museum in London, where it will put on display between September 2026 and July 2027.

The tapestry was with military precision by an art transportation specialist. There heavy police protection as the historic masterpiece its journey under the cover of darkness to the British capital. It was in a climate-controlled box with technology to shocks. The director of the British Museum the operation a "monumental effort". Millions of people are to see it. A museum spokesperson said: "Every British child the date of 1066 — the Battle of Hastings." This battle the course of British history. The UK's culture secretary it "a pivotal period in our national story and our shared heritage and friendship with France".