The prison for the aristocrats

The prison for the aristocrats

As I informed my 11 year old daughter that my hotel for my upcoming trip was near the Tower of London, she quipped, "what! you are going to stay near a prison?"

It then dawned on me that the tower is indeed prison of many royalties and aristocrats. I also wrongly, seemed to remember, that Mary the queen of Scots was also held there. she wasn't - I later discovered.

I later read from the wiki that only 7 people were executed in the tower, though the common people like me think erroneously that it was the place for execution in the medieval times. I walked to the tower by foot on a feb Sunday, and snapped everything wildly that came in front of me.