In the statement, Detective Constable Molly O’Malley says that anyone who might have information about the crime should contact authorities. On Friday, May 21, thieves broke into the display case and stole $1.4 million worth of gold and silver artifacts, including the historic rosary (center).Īt the time of the theft, the castle had been reopened for less than a week, only welcoming back visitors on Tuesday, May 18, after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Police provided this image of a display case holding precious artifacts at Arundel Castle just days before the burglary. “The rosary is of little intrinsic value as metal, but as piece of the Howard family history and the nation’s heritage it is irreplaceable,” say authorities in the statement.
The House of Howard, a noble English family with ties to Elizabeth’s mother, Anne Boleyn, has held the rosary in its collections at Arundel ever since. In a grisly scene, the axman struck Mary’s neck three times before fully severing her head from her body.
In 1587, when Mary was 44 years old, Elizabeth had her Scottish cousin executed for allegedly taking part in assassination plot against the Tudor queen.Īs Ben Mitchell reports for the Press Association, Mary may have carried this rosary on her person as she recited her final prayers in Latin and knelt at the executioner’s block.
Police discovered the likely getaway car-set on fire and abandoned in a nearby town-and an empty display case that once held artifacts including a gold rosary owned by Mary Stuart, otherwise known as Mary, Queen of Scots.Ĭrowned queen of Scotland just six days after her birth in 1542, Mary was deposed in 1567 and forced to flee to England, where her cousin (and rival) Elizabeth I effectively imprisoned her for 18 years. Thieves snuck in through a window at Arundel Castle, a 1,000-year-old palace in West Sussex, England, on Friday night, smashing a glass cabinet and-in a matter of minutes-making off with a trove of gold and silver items worth more than $1.4 million, per a Sussex Police report.Īlarms sounded on the premises around 10:30 p.m., alerting authorities, who arrived on the scene after the perpetrators had fled, reports BBC News.
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