Tag: Tower of London

Family Fun at the Historic Royal Palaces

My four-year-old daughter sits on a stool, looking impossibly small in the backdrop of the enormous fireplace. She turns a long spindle as two plucked chickens roast slowly over the flames. Looking up, she smiles at me hesitantly. “Mind you don’t let that go idle,” says the cook, dressed in a white period piece with…


Tower of London Raven Missing, Presumed Dead

One of the eight famed ravens at the Tower of London is thought to have died, several weeks after going missing. A 300-year-old royal decree states that at least six ravens must be kept at the tower, in keeping with an omen that if the ravens leave, the kingdom will meet with disaster. There could…