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STORIES
Sir Walter Raleigh
This wild spirit found himself caged at the Tower of London
Lady Jane Grey
Known as the ‘Nine Day Queen’, Lady Jane had the shortest reign in British history
The Tower at war
The Tower of London played an important role in the First and Second World Wars
The Ceremony of the Keys
Centuries-old traditions of the Tower of London including the Ceremony of the Keys and Beating the Bounds.
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Who was the real Guy Fawkes, the man behind the mask?
Thomas Cromwell
The life and death of Henry VIII’s 'most faithful servant'
WHAT'S ON AT THE PALACES
- Things to see
Bloody Tower
Explore the stories of the Princes in the Tower and Sir Walter Raleigh in the infamous Bloody Tower.
- Open
- Tower of London
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Imprisonment at the Tower exhibition
Learn why people ended up as prisoners in the Tower of London, in the very rooms where some of them were held.
- Open
- Tower of London
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Torture at the Tower exhibition
Discover stories of the unfortunate prisoners who were tortured within the walls of the Tower of London.
- Open
- Tower of London
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Charles I’s execution site
Walk in the footsteps of the condemned King and stand on the spot of Charles I's execution, just outside Banqueting House.
- Closed
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
Tower Green & Scaffold site
Walk in the footsteps of those condemned to execution at the Tower of London on Tower Green and the Scaffold Site.
- Open
- Tower of London
- Included in palace admission (members go free)