Today we toured Westminster Abbey with our guide Molly, I loved the design of the building I think it is a beautiful church and I liked looking at all the different architecture that was inside. I think that Westminster Abbey is beautiful and it is a good option for the coronations to take place at, especially because it is one of the oldest buildings I think in the world. Like I’ve said in previous blog posts I felt very lucky to be able to go into such a historic building where so many important things have happened throughout history.
I noticed that there were some memorials for people who had died and been buried somewhere else, like William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and probably lots of other people. I think I would have preferred to have walked through the Abbey at my own pace rather than being on a guided tour, most of the time I could hear her very well. Other than not being able to hear very well I enjoyed looking at all of the different things that the Abbey had to offer. I liked learning about all of the gravestones of famous people from history and seeing some of them like Mary Queen of Scotts, Edward the Confessor, Henry the 8th, Elizabeth the first, and the unmarked grave of the fallen British soldier. I also really enjoyed seeing and learning about all of the famous poets and writers graves in the Poets’ Corner section of the Abbey. I liked learning about how one of the women writers wrote under a pen name so that she could get her work recognized and published, and when she died they buried her in Poets’ corner in Westminster Abbey with her real name and her pen name on the gravestone which hI thought was really cool.
Overall, I liked my time at Westminster Abbey. I would have probably changed a few things to help make my personal experience better, but I think that it was a great experience, one that I will probably never have again so I’m glad that I got to go and see such a historical place. I think that it is a great place to go see if you are ever in London, it has so much history from multiple coronations of Kings and Queens, royal weddings, and tons of other things.
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