The Treasure Hall is one of the most attractive places, where a full set of royal treasures are displayed. 1In March, 994, a brand-new treasure house located in the underground of Waterloo District was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II. Jewelry is displayed in a series of bright glass cabinets in the exhibition hall, and visitors slowly pass through the automatic passage. The huge screen above the glass cabinet shows the historical panorama of these jewels and their role in the coronation ceremony.
The coronation ceremony can be traced back to the time of Edward the Confessor, the king of England, and the jewels on Queen Elizabeth's coronation ceremony came from the Restoration of charles ii in 1660 or later. In A.D. 1650, the Puritans in oliver cromwell's short-lived regime despised the monarch's magnificent ornaments and sold the royal treasures of the Middle Ages. Some survived and eventually returned to the royal collection.
Royal scepter, horn and royal sword are displayed in front of visitors in turn; A jewel-encrusted sword given to the monarch by the archbishop; The oldest items in royal jewelry, the golden holy oil bottle and oil spoon used by medieval monarchs to smear holy oil; Coronation robe; Crown, scepter, ball with a cross at the top, including the golden crown made by Edward for charles ii, are still used in the authorization ceremony; A crown covered with precious stones is specially made for Queen Victoria and worn on occasions such as holding parliament. On the cross at the bottom of the crown, there is a big ruby from black prince. Black prince loves 14 15 the helmet worn by Henry V in the battle of tapiscia sinensis and the sapphire of Stuart's royal family. On the cross at the top, there is a sapphire, which is said to come from Edward the Confessor's own ring. On the scepter of the royal family, the world's largest diamond "Star of Africa" shines.
The White Tower is the oldest building in the Tower of London. Construction started in William I on 1078 and was completed in William II on 1097. It is a three-story building in Normandy style, with a length of 35.9 meters from east to west, a width of 32.6 meters from north to south and a height of 27.4 meters. Henry III was painted white, hence the name White Pagoda. There are towers in all four corners of the tower, except for the circular tower in the northeast corner, the other three are square. 12 ~ 13 century was expanded, centering on the white tower, surrounded by two layers of inner and outer walls and several defensive buildings. There are 13 pagodas in the inner city wall, which were built in Henry III period. The most famous pagodas are wakefield, Blood Pagoda and Beacham Pagoda. The blood tower was built in 1225, originally known as the Garden Tower, but it was renamed as the blood tower at the end of 16 due to a tragic incident. The exterior wall is composed of six towers, including the Middle Tower, the Well Tower and the St. Thomas Tower, and two redoubts, which were completed in the English Edward I of England period, and most of them are cylindrical. There is a moat on the outermost layer. Since 1 140, the tower has become one of the important palaces of the British king. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, James I was the last king who lived there. St John's Church in Baita is the oldest existing church in London, and it is also a Norman-style building. The Tower of London is now one of the famous museums in Britain, displaying ancient weapons, crowns, robes and armor from Britain and other countries. The Royal Treasures Museum, located in the basement, mainly displays the crown, scepter and royal jewels of the monarch since17th century, including the "imperial crown" made of more than 3,000 precious stones when Queen Victoria was crowned and the scepter with 530 carats of precious stones.
Next to the Treasure Hall is the magnificent White Pagoda, originally built by William the Conqueror at the end of 1 1. King Norman, who defeated Saxon king Harold in Hastings, built strong castles all over England to consolidate his victory. The address he chose for London was the former Roman camp on the Thames. In A.D. 1078, he entrusted the construction project to Gandalf, Bishop of Rochester, and William Fitzstephen described it as a very great and solid Marandin Tower in his chronicle written in the12nd century. Unlike wooden Saxon buildings, the Tower of London is made of Kent limestone and decorated with white granite from Caen.
The white tower of London has conical towers at its four corners, and it still looks down all around. The construction of ancillary structures lasted for centuries, and finally included 13 tower in infield and 6 towers and redoubts in outfield.
Once upon a time, the only entrance on land was a 30-meter-wide causeway with walls, which led to the castle building of the Lion Tower. There are wild animals raised by the king wandering here. The manager of the tower can get 14p every day, and 6p can be used to buy a lot of raw meat for lions, leopards, bears and wolves.
Today, the Lion Tower no longer exists, and wild animals were sent to the newly-built London Zoo in A.D. 1834. The entrance passes through the gate of the central tower, through another smaller causeway laid on the drainage moat in A.D. 1834, and reaches the side building, where there are guards wearing bright red shirts and black leather hats.
The towers standing in front of tourists evoke people's memories of the cruelty and suffering of many centuries, grand celebrations and all the great achievements made by the kingdom here. There is no better description of the original use of the Tower of London than John Stowe's A Journey to London published in A.D. 1598.
This tower is a castle, used to defend or control the whole city; It is a palace where meetings or agreements are held; This is the national prison where the most dangerous enemy is held; It was the only coinage place in Britain at that time; This is an armory where weapons are stored; It is a treasure house of royal ornaments and jewels, and it is also an archive that preserves a large number of records of the king in the Palace of Westminster.
William the Conqueror's huge white Tower of London is calling us. After the great fire broke out in Windsor City in 1993, the Royal Palace Management Office, which manages the Tower of London, built a safety exit on the second floor, which can evacuate as many as 1000 tourists to the first floor with obvious signs. A fire detection and alarm system is also set up. Treasure Hall has a fire control center, which can control the whole site.
St. John's church occupies part of the second and third floors, and the white tower preserves the most exquisite armor in Europe. Henry VIII's huge armor can be seen in the Tudor armory on the top floor. Renaissance and medieval armor are displayed on the second floor, and armor for instant combat is on the first floor. On the left of the White Pagoda is a meadow called Green Pagoda. At Queen Victoria's command, a sign indicating the location of the guillotine stood. The highest-ranking man who coveted the throne was beheaded here. Two unfortunate wives of King Henry were buried in Greta. They were accused of adultery, but Queen Anne, the mother of Elizabeth I, may be innocent. Her sentence was postponed because Anne demanded that it be executed by a skilled executioner with a sword from France.
On the morning of the execution of Anne1May 2, 536 1536, she asked the officers in the tower if they had seen the sword and if it was sharp. The official gave a positive answer. "Well," said Annie, "I am satisfied because I have a slender neck."
The king was wearing a cross and a yellow coat symbolizing happiness when gunshots were announced in the tower. He soon married jane seymour again. Anne was burned in nearby St. Peter's and Winkula's churches, and Queen Catherine was buried here.
The last people who died here were Queen Elizabeth's merry knight and the Earl of Essex who peeped at the throne. Nowadays, crows with plump and smooth feathers strut on the green tower that has witnessed countless blood and sufferings, and the wind sighs among the tall buttonwood trees. Legend has it that once eight carefully protected ravens leave, the tower will also collapse.
The ancient lock ceremony is held at ten o'clock every night. The ceremony was presided over by a warden, accompanied by a sergeant and three guards wearing bright red shirts and black fur hats. The warden locked the outermost door first, then locked the door of the middle tower, and finally locked the door of the side fort. After returning to the inner city, an officer with a sword challenged him. The guards took out their weapons; The warden raised his Tudor hat and shouted, "God protect Queen Elizabeth!" " The bell rang, and a hand blew the clear and long name of the night, echoing in the distant memory of the majestic Tower of London 900 in the dark.