I had such a fun and interesting experience at the tower of London. I learned so much information surrounding British history with many artifacts and places to explore. We went through The Crown Jewels, The Chapel Royal of St. Peters and Vincula, The Bloody Tower, Torture rooms, The White Tower, and had a British inspired lunch at the café.
We started our day together walking through The Crown Jewels getting an up close and personal look at several different crowns, scepters, swords, dresses, and diamonds, all with historical information that I was very interested to learn and experience.
We then walked through different parts of the tower and got to learn about the types of beasts they used to keep there for entertainment and gifts to the monarchy. These animals included baboons, lions, tigers, polar bears, and many others that surprised me how many animals from different places they all kept at the tower together. We learned how the people in charge did not know how to properly care for the exotic animals and had many casualties.
We explored The White Tower after this which displayed horse sculptures and knight armor from past kings and the stories tied to each exhibit. We also explored The Chapel Royal of St. Peters and Vincula shortly after this and got to experience the history that happened within the walls including executions of many people whose bones are still buried under the grounds to this day.
The Bloody Tower was next on the places we wanted to explore and my favorite out of all the places we went to through our tour. We learned about how two young princes were captured, held in the tour and presumably murder by their uncle for him to become king, in other words, the origin for William Shakespeare’s Hamlet! I thought that was the most interesting piece of British history that I found during my visit to the tower of London.
We closed off the tour after a visit to The Torture Room where we got to see the different torture devices that were used to crush or stretch people during this period. I had such a great time learning everything and would most definitely experience this tour again.
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