The Tower of London
The Tower of London The Tower of London was founded in 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England, with the White Tower that gives this medieval castle its name being built by William the Conqueror in 1079. While this castle was not designed to be a prison, it acted as one over the years, with the earliest prisoner Ranulf Flambard the Bishop of Durham being held there in 1100. There is a long list of people who have been held prisoner at the tower to include the brothers Edward and Richard, commonly referred to as the princes of the tower, Catharine Howard 5 th wife of King Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey the uncrowned queen of England who was beheaded on order of Queen Mary I, even the future Queen Elizabeth I was imprisoned here for two months in 1554, and perhaps the most famous of all, Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife to King Henry VIII. We arrived at the Tower of London by boat via the River Thames, much the same way as Anne Boleyn would have arrived in 15