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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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