The copy was made two years after the actual Magna Carta was sealed by King John as an agreement with his barons. The British Ambassador to Luxembourg, Alice Walpole, said that the Magna Carta showcases 'the United Kingdom’s role at the heart of international legal advances and human rights and our historic domestic traditions of democracy and rule of law. The principles of Magna Carta remain relevant in today’s world, and elements of it remain enshrined in modern British law.'
Hereford Cathedral
The document is being accompanied on its tour by a representive of Hereford Cathedral, the permanent UK home of the copy. Source: Magna Carta Comittee
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