1. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
Henry VIII
The Tower Ravens
Anne Boleyn
The Tower of London
Yeoman The Tower Green
The Garden Tower

2. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
Tower of London
• Unesco’s World Heritage Site
• 11th century
• a royal palace
• a fortress
• a prison
• a place of execution
• a jewel house (the home of the Crown Jewels of United Kingdom)

3. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
The Ravens
Legend: If the six ravens living
in the tower are absent, the
Kingdom will fall!

4. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal
Palace and Fortress the Tower of London
(Beefeaters)
• ceremonial guardians of the Tower of
London
• in practice they act as tour guides and are a
tourist attraction

5. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
The Garden Tower
(= The Bloody Tower)
• 2 princes disappeared from here without
a trace.
• They’re thought to have been murdered.

6. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
The Tower Green
• 4 nobles were executed by beheading in the
scaffold
• Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s 5th wife, Anne
Boleyn, was beheade here.
• Legend: she comes back as a ghost and
walks around the Tower of London.

7. Time in the Tower - extensive reading
Henry VIII Anne Boleyn
1491 - 1547 1507 - 1536