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The Tower's Mint

Guarding the production of all the country's precious coins for over 500 years

Sir Walter Raleigh

This wild spirit found himself caged at the Tower of London

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Who was the real Guy Fawkes, the man behind the mask?

Duleep Singh

The last Sikh Maharaja of the Punjab and former owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond

William the Conqueror

England's first Norman King

Elizabeth of York

The original Tudor Queen, and wife of Henry VII

Henry VI

Intelligent and generous, he lived in his father's shadow and was killed for his throne

The Ceremony of the Keys

Centuries-old traditions of the Tower of London including the Ceremony of the Keys and Beating the Bounds.

Tower of London Prison

It is known as an infamous prison, but it wasn't built to be one