The Tower of London is one of those rare places where the weight of history is genuinely palpable — not in a museum-display kind of way, but in the cold stone, the ravens strutting the grounds, and the knowledge that the crown jewels are sitting in a vault somewhere beneath your feet. Built by William the Conqueror in 1078, it has served as a royal palace, a prison, an armoury, a zoo, and a mint over its near-thousand-year life. If you've heard of Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, or the Princes in the Tower, you've already been brushing up against its story without knowing it.
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