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The Tower of London

The Tower Ravens

Yeoman

The Garden Tower

Henry VIIIAnne Boleyn

The Tower Green

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Tower of London

• Unesco’s World Heritage Site

• 11th century

• a royal palace

• a fortress

• a prison

• a place of execution

• a jewel house (the home of the Crown Jewels of United Kingdom)

The Ravens

Legend: If the six ravens living

in the tower are absent, the

Kingdom will fall!

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Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal

Palace and Fortress the Tower of London

(Beefeaters)

•ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London

•in practice they act as tour guides and are a

tourist attraction

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The Garden Tower

(= The Bloody Tower)

•2 princes disappeared from here without a

trace.

•They’re thought to have been murdered.

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The Tower Green

•4 nobles were executed by beheading in the

scaffold

•Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s 5th wife, Anne

Boleyn, was beheade here.

•Legend: she comes back as a ghost and walks

around the Tower of London.

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Henry VIII

1491 - 1547

Anne Boleyn

1507 - 1536

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