Visit the London Tower in the United Kingdom

The tower is a piece of history in the present, surrounded by a wall that has served just a residence of kings, as a fortress, a prison and arsenal, as a mint and it even as a zoo. Today, it functions as a museum and treasury. The Royal crown jewels are guarded here. The first king to take residence here was William the Conqueror, the last James I.

As prisoners, such illustrious guests enjoyed the hospitality of the tower as the bishop of Durham, Henry VI, Tomas Morris and the wives of Henry VIII. The last prisoner to live here was Rudolf Hess during World War II. The terrorist brought directly in the bank of the Thames. The concentric walls are more or less pentagonal in shape, and partially include the ancient Roman city wall from the times of Julius Caesar.

The entrance to the building complex is through the middle tower. The towers of the interior wall system each have very revealing names, Bloody Tower, Flint Tower, Broad Arrow Tower, and governor tower. The history of the tower is entwined with a long and exciting history of London in England from the conquest of the Romans to the Norman invasions to the War of the Roses. There are two significant buildings within the fort walls, the white tower which served as a residence of kings and the garrison which now serves as the royal treasury.

According to legend, with the black ravens that lived here leave the tower, it means the fall of the British Empire. The lively presentations by tour guides and period customs help us understand the events of the past.

“Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to her majesty’s palace who portrays the tower of London. I’m dressed in the clothes of a man who has just returned from hunting in the 13th century. I supposed the heyday of the tower of London.”

There are of course those who do not don their uniforms as mere customs. We’re familiar with these Beefeaters from the labels of Jean Badels. They are the selected few who make up the elite guards in men unit of her majesty, officially known as Yeomen Warders, the Beefeaters and the guards keep a watchful eye over the world treasury whether Royal jewels or cat.

The collection includes St. Edwards and Queen Victoria’s crown as well as the state sword, the royal orb and the world’s largest diamond, the 530 karat star of Africa which is encased in the Royal scepter.

The crown of Queen Elizabeth, the imperial state ground was made for her father in 1937 and is adorned with 2868 diamonds, 17 sapphires, eleven emeralds and five rubies. Looking down from Tower Bridge, we can see that the white tower is actually round in shape and that its four towerettes are different from each other. The Norman Fryer Gundulf built the tower on orders of King William on the ruins of the small ford of the Saxon king offered. The walls of the white tower are four meters thick. But the stocking is optically masked by the white stone inlays found at the corner edges of the tower.

Many of ruler made an appearance here, some willingly and some not so. Some departed from here to their coronation ceremony and some to their own executions. When such executions scaffold they’re still visible today and the museum just placed the blocked in hatchet used for decapitations.

The weapons exhibit also displays the armored kings as well as life sized models of their horses. King Richard III with Shakespeare later portrayed as the wretched soul main character and one of his famous works had as two nephews killed in the bloody tower.

The remains of the two little princes were found two centuries later, and laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. The museum in exhibit set up in the towers and buildings of the tower are not at all like those where historic items are encased in glass showcases away from dust and curious hands.

Like most museums in London, here too, the collection comes alive with hands-on interactive and informative exhibits that challenged the mind. In front of the building complex known as the Queen’s house just in front of Buckingham Palace, bare skin had at centuries around duty though the changing of the guards here at the house is less spectacular than the one at the palace.