Yesterday after our last orientation session at the university some friends and I went to tour the Tower of London, where back in the day lots of monarchs and whoever else the church disliked were beheaded, and where the crown jewels of many monarchs are stored today. Once again I was overwhelmed with the amount of history that went on there! This is where Anne Boleyn was beheaded, where Queen Elizabeth I was imprisoned as a princess, where Lady Jane Grey was executed, and where Queen Elizabeth I locked up her enemy and threat to the throne, Mary Queen of Scots. Then we went to see the gallery with all the crown jewels and other sparkly royal belongings used for the coronation of kings and queens. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed, or else I would have dozens of pictures of everything relating to the Tudors.
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The Tower of London!
Just as seen in the movie "Elizabeth" :) |
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| Alexandra and I with one of the tour guides |
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| Traitor's Gate - where all the prisoners were brought in to be executed...so Anne Boleyn has been here! |
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| Inside the tower's gates |
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| Windy stairs n the Bloody Tower |
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| View of Tower Bridge from the Bloody Tower |
Next we took a trip to the London Beatles Store. To get there we had to get off at the Baker Street Station, which we were told was the oldest underground station in the world! After the Tower of London my camera ran out of batteries so I couldn't take any good pictures but still, it was pretty cool!
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| The only pic I got of the oldest underground station |
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| The Beatles :) |
Only a few more days until classes...time to order textbooks and enjoy the last weekend of freely wandering around London.
xoxo,
Sarah
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