Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress or other wise known as The Tower of London, has played an outstanding role in English history. The Tower has also played an important part in controlling the country. The castle is over 900-years-old and is located in central London. There is not just one tower, its actually a castle made op of different wards and buildings.
The tower is made up of three wards. The Tower of London is made up of several buildings within two aligned circles of defense walls and a moat. The earliest and innermost part of the castle contains the White Tower. In 1080 work on the White Tower began. The White Tower is mainly referred to as a donjon, it is also known for being the strongest structure in a medieval castle. The White Tower is represented as a symbol of oppression brought upon London by the new ruling elite. It is described as “ the most complete eleventh century palace in all of Europe”(Tower). Only seven people were executed in the Tower before World Wars I and II. The next ward of the Tower is the inner ward. (Tower)
There are many parts to the inner ward. It was built from 1189-1199. It was also created during the reign of Richard the Lionheart. Some of the other architecture in the inner ward includes the Blood tower titled by the reason that the infant sons of Edward IV were has supposed to be murdered in the tower. The Jewel or Marlin Tower held many prisoners, but the most famous of them was Anne Boleyn. The Brick Tower is said to have held Lady Jane Grey another well-known prisoner. Most of the other architecture in the inner ward was mainly used as prisons. The final and most recent ward is the outer ward (Tower).
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...t to controlling the country. The Tower has served variously as an armory, a treasury, a menagerie, the home of the Royal, a public records office, and the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
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