Strawberry Hill's new exhibition chases a lost dagger with a questionable past
Two Ottoman-made decorative daggers, misattributed to King Henry VIII, are displayed at Strawberry Hill alongside materials about a missing Tudor-associated dagger and its theatrical afterlife.
Twisting tale of 'Henry VIII's lost dagger' to be told in London exhibition
An Ottoman dagger misattributed to Henry VIII was made in late-16th-century Istanbul, collected by Walpole and later stolen from Hever Castle in a 1946 heist.