Tower of London & Crown Jewels Tour

The Tower of London has been a royal palace, prison, armory, zoo, and mint during its 1,000-year history. Today its most famous residents are the ravens (whose presence, legend says, prevents the tower from falling) and the Crown Jewels — the most valuable collection of ceremonial objects in the world.

What's Included

• Skip-the-line Tower of London entry ticket
• Guided tour by a Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) — 45 minutes
• Crown Jewels gallery viewing
• White Tower medieval armour exhibition
• Tower Green historical site visit

Itinerary

09:30 — Meet at Tower Hill gate. 09:45 — Yeoman Warder guided tour (1 hour). 11:00 — Crown Jewels gallery (self-guided). 12:00 — White Tower and the Line of Kings armour exhibition. 13:00 — Tower Green (Anne Boleyn execution site). 13:30 — Free time.

Famous Prisoners

• Anne Boleyn — executed on Tower Green, 1536
• Sir Thomas More — executed for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the church, 1535
• Guy Fawkes — tortured in the Tower after the Gunpowder Plot, 1605
• Rudolf Hess — the Tower's last-ever prisoner, held 1941

No single building holds more of England's secrets than the Tower — and most of them are still here.