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unusual facts about the Tower of London



Aliona Doletskaya

In this role, she has successfully managed several cultural projects, including an exhibition of The Royal Academy «Living Bridges» in the Tretyakov Gallery and in a joint exhibition in the Kremlin and the Tower of London "Treasures of the Tower".

Patrick Macnee's Ghost Stories

The series include such explorations as the legends of The Black Hope Horror, The Tower of London, Harriet’s Ghost and many more.

Queen's Colour Squadron

The unit has mounted the guard at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and The Tower of London on several occasions, and has formed guards of honour for various visiting heads of state at Heathrow Airport, near its former base of RAF Uxbridge and its current base of RAF Northolt.

William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys

He became Lord Chamberlain in 1526 and Henry visited him three times at the Vyne, once with Anne Boleyn whom Sandys was later to escort to her imprisonment in the Tower.


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Arthur Champernowne

Champernowne personally delivered 64 boxes of treasure weighing some 8 tonnes safely to the tower of London, worth some 2 million Royales.

Barbary lion

The lions in the Tower of London were transferred to more humane conditions at the London Zoo in 1835 on the orders of the Duke of Wellington.

Beefeater Gin

The name ‘Beefeater’ refers to the Yeomen Warders who are the ceremonial guards of the Tower of London.

Carl Hans Lody

Lody was the first person since the Jacobite rebel Lord Lovat, who was beheaded there in 1747, to be executed in the Tower of London.

Henry Bedingfeld

After this event, "Bedingfeld proclaimed the queen at Norwich, he was afterwards rewarded for his loyalty with an annual pension of 100 pounds out of the forfeited estates of Sir Thomas Wyatt; made a Privy Councillor by Mary I and Knight Marshal of her army, and, subsequently Lieutenant of the Tower of London."

North Bastion

North Bastion Mountain, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada named after the north bastion of the Tower of London

Peyntour

Gideon Peyntour, medieval knight who escaped the Tower of London and died at Hadzor

Richard Cholmondeley

With English victory, Lord Surrey was restored as Duke of Norfolk, and in October of that year, Cholmeley was appointed Lieutenant of The Tower of London and Supervisor General of Richmond Castle and eleven other Yorkshire castles and manors.

South Bastion

South Bastion Mountain, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada named after the south bastion of the Tower of London

Tower Pier

Tower Millennium Pier, passenger boat service pier on the river Thames near the Tower of London, UK

Walter Long

Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet (c. 1591–1672), English MP for Ludgershal, prosecuted in the Star Chamber and imprisoned in the Tower of London