It's thought that it was made in England on the orders of King William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux in the 1070s. 

Once the shackles of high office are released they feel free to do "normal" things. 

The Bayeux Tapestry is back in England for the first time since it was made here 950 years ago after a secret night time journey. Apparently it's an embroidery rather than a tapestry; Shula, Teresa what's the difference? 

England & France have an interesting & tumultuous relationship in history. Friends, then enemies, then friends, then enemies again. 

After the defeat of Napoleon we were generally on good terms with one another. Having said that suspicion remained, which reached its height in the 1860s when France launched the world's first purpose-built ironclad battleship leading to an arms race 45 years before the arrival of the dreadnoughts. It also led to the construction of a series of forts along the coast and in Ireland as a defence against a French invasion. There was no invasion and never was going to be one, so the forts became known as Palmerston's Follies after the Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston who authorised their construction. 

There were also a few incidents in the colonies, but that was normal with the European powers. 

It had a lot to do with the Imperial ambitions of Emperor Napoleon III. Looking back it was an overreaction by GB, Napoleon was never a threat to us, in fact he and Queen Victoria were on great terms having hosted one another in the 1850s. 

Either speculation or an attempt to distance themselves if it proves to be wrong.

I tend to avoid lifts (elevators) too unless it's several floors up, don't mind walking down though.  

In period films or TV they're always teenage boys in silly costumes.