London TowerMade By Nina Davidenko

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– Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic monument in central London. Tower is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.

• The Tower of London is often identified with the White Tower, the original stark square fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1078. However, the tower as a whole is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat.

• The main function of Tower was a fortress, a royal palace, and a prison. It has also served as a place of execution and torture, an and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, the Royal Mint, a public records office, an observatory and the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

Anne Boleyn Henry VI Margaret Pole

• The Tower is the most mystical building in London. There are many ghosts in it. For example ghost of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole.

Imperial State Crown

• The Crown Jewels have been kept at the Tower of London since 1303, after they were stolen from Westminster Abbey. After the second theft the Crown Jewels were kept in a part of the Tower known as Jewel House, where armed guards defend treasures.

Jewel House guard

• Criminals were usually executed by hanging at one of the public execution sights outside the Tower. More known people were publicly beheaded on Tower Hill. Some of the

The Tower in 1597 (an 18th century engraving)

beheaded on Tower Hill. Some of the most famous people executed in Tower are William Hastings, Anne Boleyn, Margaret Pole, Catherin Howard, Jane Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey,

• The military use of the Tower as a fortification, like that of other such castles, became useless with the introduction useless with the introduction of artillery, and the moat was drained in 1830. Tower was still occasionally used as a prison, even through both World Wars.

• The Tower today is principally a tourist attraction. Besides the buildings themselves, the British Crown Jewels, a fine

Palace Tower

Jewels, a fine armour collection from the Royal Armouries, and a remnant of the wall of the Roman fortress are on display.

White Tower

• Now the only inhabitants of the Tower are ravens. There is a legend that the Tower will fall if it loses its ravens. Therefore the birds are carefully guarded.

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