From hidden spots at the Tower of London to the 'lost' and little-known Jewel Tower, Tracy Borman shares her tips and tricks for getting the most out of London's royal sites.
. As a top tip to visitors, that means you can actually attend services there before the Tower opens to the public. It means you've got the Tower to yourself. And you're experiencing history when you're taking part in these in these services that generations of Tower residents have before. People think you've got to have some association with the Tower to come, but you don't. Anybody can come.
Yes, that's the period I always come back to. There's been a lot of criticism lately in the press around,"Why are we all so obsessed with the Tudors?" I think,"For good reason!" It's such a dramatic period, full of larger-than-life characters. You have King Henry VIII, who married six times; you have the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I. It's the age of Shakespeare and overseas exploration. It's a very self-confident age, a very formative age.
. It was one of the palaces built by King Henry VII, who founded the Tudor dynasty, and it was particularly beloved by his granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth I. She called it her"warm box", because it had this quite sophisticated heated system – she always felt the cold. She loved Richmond, and, in her old age, she chose to die at Richmond. Like so many of the palaces, it fell prey to fire.
All of the big London palaces were on the Thames, because that's how people travelled – by river was much more convenient and faster than by road. So it's lovely to walk along the
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