Americans Learn British History At The Tower of London
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Don’t beat yourself up over our history. We never stop learning on a history journey. Love the content.
I love the history it just makes me laugh that I came over to see Harry Potter sights and it slowly evolved to having an emotional breakdown in the British museum 😂😂
I’m sure no one on here watching your videos thinks you’re dumb. It’s obvious that you’re both overwhelmed, in a good and positive way, by what you’re learning and it’s a real joy to be experiencing it with you! I have a personal connection to the Tower: my Father in Law was a Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) and I got married there at the Chapel Royal. The family lived in the outer wall (The Casemates) which had been converted into accommodation and overlooked the moat.
First off thank you 😊 that is one of the coolest things I ever heard, I bet your father in law got some amazing stories to tell.
You might know better, the body of the Duke of Monmouth, he wasn’t in the 4th floor chapel in the white tower right ?
Monmouth’s in a different place in the Tower grounds, the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula (where I got married) which is open to the public so you might have seen it on your visit. There are a lot of others there including two Queens of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Katharine Howard, both beheaded by Henry. There’s some decent info available if you search the name of the Chapel. It’s not a spelling mistake by the way, it’s ‘ad’ not ‘and’.
Sorry forgot to mention my late Father in Law. He had an amazing life including many years in the British Army during WW2 mostly in Burma. I cant remember the details of the rule, if they still apply, but to be a Yeoman Warder you have to have served for a set number of years in the Army or, I think one of the other services, to be eligible to apply…
@@ronturner9850 a very senior nco (eg warrant officer) and with a long service and/or good conduct medal - from any branch of the military
@@alexshapley8331 Thanks, he was an RSM.
I love your attitude and open mind, so refreshing. As Brits we grow up with all this history and tend to take it for granted. 2 miles from my home there is a "hill fort" built 4,000 years ago, the tumulus built 3,500 years ago, etc. You open our eyes again. Thank You
4,000 years ago 😧 our oldest city in America is 458 years old, st Augustine Florida. That’s the best we got. It’s not that I am ignoring or downplaying Native American history, it’s just they didn’t keep records or much of anything to really trace back too far. In England you see the foundation of modern civilization and it just amazes me.
@@Trippingthroughadventures skara brae in orkney is over 5000 years old, it pre dates the pyramids and stone henge.
footings and walls etc are still there.
ive not yet got to visit it even though im in the uk but its on my list for sure
kind of mind blowing seeing these places
Opposite the tower there is an office building in the basement is the original London wall that the romans built. My husband used to work there and they made the canteen there with a glass sheet so you could see the wall.
i agree, as a kid i grew up walking the family dog around the local castle ruins without a second thought, it wasn't until we had guests from other countries, especially the US, that i realised how special it was to be around something so old and full of history.
When Ann Boleyn was taken through traitors gate I had family living on the opposite bank of the river. My 8th x grt grandfather was one of King Henry's high constables at the time. His father my 9th x grt grandfather paid for stain glass windows in his parish church which is still there today over 500yrs later. ✌️🏴🇬🇧
Holy crap that’s cool, this text cannot express how I’m reacting to this story, like this is real stuff with real witnesses, thank you for sharing this 🥲
@@Trippingthroughadventures glad you're enjoying our history, I've had great satisfaction researching my family's history, there's an Anglo saxon sword in the British museam that my 2 x grt grandfather found whilst working on the bank of the Thames in the 1890s which when I go to the museum they take me out the back to look at it closely with the original letter my 1 x grt grandfather wrote explaining how his father found it, because his father couldn't write. I recommend everyone research their history, the further you go back the odds get less of finding out you're related to an historic character or had a relative at an historic event. A couple of yrs ago we visited our family homes on the sth Bank and drank in the local pubs they drank in just east of Waterloo stn. Only the properties from about 1800 were still there. We are still living in London today. Enjoy your stay aswell as our 🍺. ✌️🏴🇬🇧
You are lucky it's still there, the puritans were a tad unkind to such things, nowadays we appreciate it for its beauty and history.
There is nothing more awe inspiring than walking along the path of people in history
Agreed what’s the saying, “in order to see where your going, you have to know where you came from “
Look into British Inventions. You will be surprised.....And Everyday the People of Britain are Walking Through History.....
That’s something that amazes me, if towels of London was in American you would not be able to walk inside them buildings, but in England the tour guides actually live there 😂. It’s baffles me but if you guys didn’t integrate it into modern times you would have to build a completely new city lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Hi , the tour guides are Yeoman warders they are all ex military and the oldest formed body of men in the world, they are the kings ceremonial bodyguard on state occasions , weddings and funerals . They do consider it an honor to serve His majesty who is also commander and chief of our armed forces . 🙂
You are not dumb, it's grest you are learning about our history.
London
Thank you we can’t wait to learn more
I think as Brits we take it for granted, i live in Portsmouth home of the Royal Navy, at the end of my road is a Church that was built in 987ad, we have Nelson's flagship the HMS Victory it smashed the French and Spanish and secured the British Empire, all of this to us is normal... great video though glad to see you appreciating the History.
It’s not very comparable but we live maybe and hour from Disney world, been going since I was a kid, it’s a weekend thing, I forget that some people save their whole life just for the opportunity to bring their family there. Sometimes when you live so close to things you grow numb to its significance.
I am a Londoner and have visited the tower about 4 times. As child, adult, parent and guide. Each time it's an incredible experience and totally overwhelming as you say. It also can't be done in a day... there is too much to see and even more to try to take on board.
We are proud of our history, although we do not shout it out enough in my opinion. I also live near to Portsmouth and am really pleased to show friends (and people that I just meet when there) HMS Victory, where my ancestor was in fact a member of the crew at Trafalgar. He was William Elliott, and he was Master at Arms on board. He survived the battle.
So it is not only the sites/places that should hold your attention, but please bear in mind that you may well be rubbing shoulders with descendants of people who took part in important and famous events.
The parish church in my village in Suffolk was built in the early 1200s and the cottage I lived in for 17 years was built in 1574. Still had the original timbers!
You are right we do take our long and proud history for granted and we should shout about it more. But that's not the British way 😂
As an Englishman that was born 15 minute drive from the Tower, but has never visited it, you have experienced more of my heritage than i have.
You’re missing out, we get to go see a rock and then a dock where they spilled a box of tea and don’t want to shut up about it. 😂🤣😂 and then there’s the civil war half the country is obsessed with it and the other half don’t want to acknowledge it ever happened… historical side not the political mumbo jumbo parts. And that pretty much sums up our history, all the other important American history things happened in Europe 😂
There were animals at the Tower for about 500 years. They were moved to London Zoo in about 1820.
Don't be so hard on yourself, you're not dumb, I'm a 50yr old British man born & bred, and I'm still learning about the history of the UK. We take our history for granted as there's so much of it.
Great vlog and channel. 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇺🇲👍🏻
Thank you for the kind words
Never call yourself dumb, you seem to have fallen for, or have awakened a passion for our history, that many of us Brits just take for granted. We are the dumb ones. I hope you come back here often and explore more. Their is so much to see. Try and go beyond London too. You will love Stonehenge and pretty Cotswolds villages like Bibury and Roman Spa in Bath.
I love your enthusiasm and can't stop watching you vlogs.
Im glad you enjoyed your visit, its refreshing to hear Americans who respect our history' and now understands why us English/Brits who at one point in history ruled one third of the globe.
Did you see Henry V111's body armour' and the armour for his horse?
We may have but it was so overwhelming so many people is adding so much we want to go back a see all the things we missed. It’s just so impressive not only the amount of history but the history that’s been preserved.
You guys are living your best life; and we're here for it!
I'm so pleased you had a good time. I watched an Australian lady on here saying it was when she was looking at the armour at the tower that she realised fairy tales were real. I loved that. I have a medieval church near me thats nearly 900 years old. There was a survey done before some housing were built nearby, and they found evidence of a roman farmstead. Hope you return soon. I am looking forward to your next video. 🙂🏴
I agree with that lady! Thank you for watching! That would be cool visit, there is so much to see. We can’t wait to come back!
The children in the Tower have actually been found twice! The bones that were found under the staircase (which had not been built at the time) are interred in Westminster Abbey. These were found in 1674. There were claims of velvet rag found with the bones but there were also animal bones as well. In 1789 workmen accidentally broke into the tomb of Edward IV, the father of the two brothers, and found an undisclosed vault. This contained the skeletons of two children. These were attributed to a son, who died at 2 and a daughter who died at the age of 14. The coffins were not disturbed and therefore the skeletons not examined. Later the coffins of these two children were found elsewhere! In the 1990's construction work was being carried out where the two unidentified children lay and it was requested that an inspection of the two coffins be carried out by fibre-optic camera. To do this permission would have to granted by Queen Elizabeth. She never granted approval but King Charles has been found to be more amenable to the idea and may give his approval. This has also been strengthened by the finding of the body of their uncle, Richard III, who has been blamed for their disappearance and possible murder. After he was defeated in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, by Henry Tudor father of Henry VIII, he was hastily buried. Many years later his body was found in a car park appropriately under the letter 'R' of the word PARK in the city of Leicester. He is now buried in Leicester Cathedral.
So there’s more than 1 candidate but only the tower one is considered cannon lol
the real problem is that many former kings may have interred the remains of unofficial children they had with the maids that died in infancy either in or near their own planned graves. these would've been unlikely to ever be recorded especially if the mother was of the lower classes.
I’m so glad I found and subscribed to your channel. What a lovely couple you are. Welcome to the uk. I’m so pleased you’re enjoying the experience of the Tower of London. It’s one of our favourite trips. Please do not feel silly about history, the uk has a very long and complex history of wars, fighting for its own survival, fighting within. Thank you.
Thank you very much it’s such an amazing history and some of it just sounds to crazy to be real 😂
This was a fun video. Thank you for putting it on TH-cam.
Thank you for watching
I've been living in London for over 20 years and I'm still in awe every time I walk around. I do find it emotional sometimes when it hits that where I'm standing that someone was here 2000 years ago. I love watching videos of people visiting London for the first time, seeing the same awe that I felt at the time. No one thinks you're dumb, you're just overwhelmed. You can tell a difference between a 'dumb yank' visiting and someone who's invested in what they're seeing. You both fall in to the latter category. The dumb ones are those that ask why they built Windsor Castle on the approach to Heathrow.
How do explore a thousands of years of history, in a life time? Lol funny thing is we know about the Americans that do stuff like that to the point it’s evolved into an American parable lol. It goes like this
A rich guy buys a trip around the world he goes to Italy and says “ why did they build that tower leaning why didn’t they build it straight” then he goes to china hears the Chinese talking and says “ how does the one know what the others saying? “ then he goes to England and says “ why they build the castles so close to the airport” then he goes home…..
Moral of the story
“ money can buy you a trip around the world but it can’t buy you common sense”
You have explored History that a lot of Brits haven't. I live in the North and gone to numerous castles, But not London. Expensive and crowded. I love the North more.
We are hoping this series does good Enough we can travel into the north, wales and Scotland more. We actually started this channel doing little towns in Florida, we would like to do that in England the uk as well.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Well i wish you well and will keep my eye on ye.
I've lived in London for my entire life and I've not seen even half of what there is to see. From my mum taking me to all the museums when I was a child, to school trips to galleries and landmarks, visiting places on weekends, to just walking round the city in my lunch hour, I've been quite active. I'd also say that many Brits are not as versed in our history as you'd expect. Of course people know the basics, but I think when it's on your doorstep, you need to have an active interest in history, or it just becomes background. I worked with people who had no idea that they were sitting less than 100 metres away from the last remaining piece of the Roman London Wall still standing. Also I'd add that when I saw Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon I was as in as much awe as you are in your video. The saying "A big difference between Americans and the British is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and the British think 100 miles is a long way" is always evident when we're on each others side of the pond. I also find it very enjoyable to see people react naturally, rather than seeing a presentation where things feel staged, if I wanted to find out all the history of The Tower, I'd watch a BBC documentary, or something similar. So keep doing things the way you are, it's unique to you and I for one love it.
Thank you very much, funny how a few miles completely changes a persons point of view lol
You guys are a prime example of why it's so important for people, and especially kids, should travel. There is only so much you learn at school, and some of it feels so detatched that they may as well be teaching fairy stories, but visiting countries and learning about different cultures and history first hand just hits differently. It's just such a shame it's so expensive, I think if we all travelled more we'd understand eachother better and there would be less conflict. But I'm thankful for the internet and people like yourselves who share your experiences with others so they can see things through your eyes and better understand the world they live in. ❤
It is expensive, but not as expensive as it has been in the past, actually world travel (at least for Americans ) has become more affordable than trips in country like Disney lol. I agree though, you will see that with us as the series progresses.
Pleased that you enjoyed your visit.
I always recommend Tower of London to any visitors to the UK, because it is such a good (and interesting) potted history of England for the last 900+ years... and when you have had a quick tour of the Tower, you can then start to explore the rest of our history (there's a lot of it!).
If you ever go to Leeds, and you are interested in the arms/armour of the UK, much more of the Tower of London's collection is in the Royal Armouries museum in central Leeds (and some days they have jousting too).
Looking forward to your next video.
Wow that sounds amazing that is definitely something we will need to remember. Hopefully we can check that out on our next visit
There's a free river taxi that takes you from near the Doubletree from Holton hotel down to the armouries.
My husband and I took our narrowboat down there on our way to York and moored up outside the hotel for 3 days.
Came out of the boat to find 3 lads sitting drinking beer on the seat at the back of our boat.
They were so apologetic. They thought it was a tourist seat.
Our history is very deep and very complicated, we all learn something new on occasion. Thank you for taking the time to enjoy our country. Haste ye back.
Refreshing that you didn't add that awful hypnotic, manipulative music, so many Americans add.
We added music lol but the vlogger that gets me is the ones who get emotionally lost and give out life advice while they never had a bill and are living on their parents money or student loans to do it and their like
“ sometimes you just got to let go “
Sweetie I am 34 with 2 kids a wife and a mortgage, these videos are coming out slow cuz if I let go, someone’s going to take it 🤣😂🤣😂
If you want to see more of how and where Henry the Eighth lived then take a tour of Hampton Court Palace in southwest London which was one of his main residences. You'll even find one of the very first tennis courts there.
This is something we want to check out thank you 😊
Good call, you can even get lost in the maze! 😊
On a flight into Heathrow the Captain announced thàt we were flying over Winsor Castle . He explained there had been a castle here since the 11th century and it was home to the Queen.
An American seated across from said "I wonder why it was built so close the the flight path into Heathrow"!
Well yes ever since that event over here with planes, we just confused when people build stuff like that so close to airport. It’s like Jeffrey wyatville didn’t even consider air traffic while he was constructing it. It’s like it wasn’t even a thought in his brain… and they call us the dumb ones 🤣😂🤣😂
The story of the Princes in the Tower being killed by Richard 111 has since been disproved.
FUN FACTS
Courtney Cox (Monica from Friends ) was on an ancestry tv show and found to be a direct descendants of William the Concorer. One king once was gifted a polar bear, they kept it on a chain and it swam in the Thames river.
Do you realize how made up that sounds, the royals was the original extreme influencers 😂🤣😂
The Tower was built after the succesful invasion by William the Conquerer and his Norman Army in 1066.......710 years before the Americans defeated a British Expeditionary Force in 1776 etc etc
We can trace our history back as far as the Romans BC until they left in AD.
Well over 2000 years of written History on these sculptured Isles
I live in Harwich north Essex,the captain of the Mayflower lived just down the road.
Hi guys from the UK. Really enjoyed your vlog and your thoughts. As an Englishman approaching 50 I haven't been out of the UK, except for northern France a long time ago! What's funny to me is that I never really think about any of the stuff over here that my curious, intelligent cousins from the new world 😊 find so amazing. It's just because we are so used to very old buildings and history around us every day of our lives and take it for granted. I live in North Wales which is THE place to come for the greatest and best preserved ancient castles all about the same age 900 years. It's like living in King Arthur's land, dark giant mountains and forests on one side with non-stop beaches and sea on the other and castle after castle between them. And then you get the the island of Anglesy where the Druids lived 2000 years ago and fought of Julius Ceasar and his invading army.
My friend my British cousin, your homeland inspired almost every fairy tale every magical tale that us Americans have ever encountered, you live in the land of the sword in the stone, the fair people, the wizarding world, the land of kings, Vikings, brave knights, conquer s, merry men, people who rob the rich to give to the poor, the land that conquered the world, the land that created the new world, the land that created kings, rippers, Romeo’s, Juliet’s, and Merlin’s you live in an empire that was built on an empire that was built on and empire… how could you over look that 🤣😂🤣🤣 I want to go to Wales they give the whole OJ Simpson defense on king author’s court with wales … you know the whole “ KING AUTHOR PROBABLY WASN’T REAL BUT IF HE WAS, HE WAS PROBABLY HERE IN WALES “ 🤣😂🤣😂
There are castles everywhere in the UK. There's one up the road from me, Hadleigh Castle circa 1215. It was fortified and occupied by King Edward lll, overlooking the southeast Thames estuary 😊
That’s so amazing, hopefully we can go check it out on our next trip. I love looking at all the castles!
I live not to far from you by the sounds of it. Was it constable that did a famous painting of Hadleigh castle? Could be wrong 🙂
Bang on sir! Yes, John Constable portrayed Hadleigh Castle with a beautiful painting. It's such a shame there's so little of it left. There's a picture on Google of the Castle in its hay-day,it used to be magnificent.
Anyway, it's a pleasure to associate with a fellow Southeast Essex er. I wish you all well and hope you are in good spirits 😊
@@robertgrant4987 excellent, small world lol, great to talk 🙂
@paulbriggs5238 Bless u mate, it's great to talk to you too, and yes, it's a small, beautiful world 🌎 😀
Thank you for your communication 🙏 👏
Glad you appreciated it. Well done to you both. 😉👍🤘
Thank you 😊
I live in a village where the church was built 900 years ago- that alone blows my mind; however I walk through that churchyard to the pub right next to it all the time so I’ve almost become so used to it just being part of the scenery- the landlord of the pub was telling me one day that it was built in the early 1600’s so as modern as it may look today you can’t help but sit in that pub and look around and try to comprehend just in this tiny village how much history there is let alone castles, abbey’s, Cathedrals etc etc around the country… you could spend the rest of your lives coming back and forth to the UK and you still wouldn’t experience every place with unique history and stories; when you said we probably learned about everything in school or visited the likes of the Tower of London on a school trip- I grew up in the North East of England so wasn’t really a chance to do that so did it as an adult!
As for school and what we learn about- a huge part of history in school for me would have been covering more recent events like the world wars, important dates and battles, treatys and documents of historical importance but kings and Queens aside from the obvious more well known ones I don’t remember learning them all like you guys do presidents… I’ve learned far more as an adult with a genuine interest and visiting places than I ever learned in a classroom.
By the way I don’t think anyone is thinking you’re not smart- you guys have been nothing but respectful in every video and open to hear and learn the things you don’t already know and that’s worth more than anything- nothing worse than a smart ass thinking they know it all cos they read it in a book- you guys are out there experiencing it and soaking it all in.
Loving the channel. Keep up the great videos 👍👍
Thank you believe or not we are taught presidents but mainly the historically relevant ones to historical events, there is a light lesson around grade 3-4 they try to teach you but that’s it, the rest we learn is probably the same amount you guys do. Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Truman, Eisenhower. And teddy Rosevelt ( he started the state parks in American and they gifted him a stuffed bear, hints why Americans call stuffed bears teddy bears lol). But to see things from even 500 years ago is amazing to an American, st Augustine’s fort here in Florida is the oldest European structure in North America. We would love to explore so much more and get more into the Celtics and Roman history.
@@Trippingthroughadventures I live now in the south east of England in Essex and only recently when my partner’s children got a metal detector I got chatting to someone about metal detecting and where to go and he told me that the farm across the road from my house has the remains of a Roman villa and if I ask the farmer he’ll probably be fine with the kids exploring the foundations etc… I haven’t done this yet as this was last week I had the conversation but I since went online and googled Roman villas in my local area and 5 came up that have been discovered within 7 miles of my home 🤣… the children collect old coins and have been given some Roman Grots by a friend who discovered them on his own land nearby years ago, not far into the next county North of here is Suffolk where one of the oldest and most well known Saxon treasures was discovered in the summer of 1939; you can visit the place now for a fee and look around- it’s a very unique site:- they discovered a Saxon burial ground within one of the many raised mounds which contained a huge wooden ship; sadly too long ago to be preserved but the imprints were still underground and the only things left were the treasures buried with the person… it is believed to be the king of east anglia dating back to the 6th century, there is a museum on site with articfacts or replicas of artifacts as some are in the museums in London.
They did rebuild a replica of the ship which is on site in the main entrance area which is cool.
If you look up Sutton hoo online and see some of the pictures for yourself it’s an amazing place to visit if you have the interest in history etc
All the best 👍👍
@@ianoo23 I have a feeling the king they think was buried there was called Redwald?
In the earliest times, the hill on which the tower stands was believed to be the place where Bran the raven god, 's head was buried hence the ravens, 'Bran Gate" is a town gate next to the tower.
Thanks for the info Never heard of bran got to do some research on him .
He was a regular visitor...I'll get m' coat...
London Zoo was first started by Stamford Raffles. He created the Zoo after he returned to England after developing the port/trading station and ultimately colony of Singapore - a port on the way back from Hong Kong. When Malaya left the British Empire, Singapore was part of Malaya but had a majority off Chinese settlers who moved there under the British. They and the Malayans didn’t get on, so Singapore left the state of Malaya and became its own country.
See that’s British, “yea the zoo was a little side project after creating Singapore” 🤣😂🤣 really cool history!
£69 is an exorbitant entrance fee to the Tower....as a South African where the exchange rate is 23 to £1 I can't even afford to visit my son in the UK let alone tour anything (that's R1,610 which is about half my monthly grocery bill ). I think its high even for Brits and Americans.
It is expensive but you could spend a whole day at the Tower it's got so much information and exhibits to see plus the guided tour the Beefeaters give is worth it on its own 😊
I agree with @claregale9011 in American you have to pay $175 per person to see a plaster castle and a fake mouse so half that for two people to see something that took 1000 years in the making seems like a good deal lol.
I think 69 was for both tickets combined, ie 34 and change each. Not cheap, but by London standards, that is good value for how many hours of 'entertainment' you receive.
@@Trippingthroughadventures that's a great way to justify it! Never thought about the mouse comparison :)
Many museums in London and throughout the UK are actually free, so if you can’t afford the entrance fee for places like the Tower you can always go to the Natural History Museum or the British Museum.
I work in the Cultural Sector here in England and met a lady who worked at the Tower of London. One of her jobs was when the Crown Jewels were taken out for use was to put into the display a sign saying that they were removed for being 'in use'! She said it was the best part of her job!
I wonder what it feels like to hold priceless jewels 💎, lol that’s more of a life highlight and a highlight of the job l… when we seen the crown, I thought back to an interview with the queen about it and she said “ oh I don’t like wearing the crown it’s dreadfully heavy “ 🤣😂🤣
@@Trippingthroughadventures For you it would be a life highlight but for her it was part of the job. Also every time it went out it had to be cleaned when it came back! The Crown takes a lot of cleaning.
I congratulate you on doing this series. I’ve lived in The USA for 14 years now and am still shocked by the deep ignorance of many Americans.
Yea the idea that not everyone wants to move to America, because, Americas the best, as to its a modern society and people move everywhere for anything. Is kind of hard for Americans to understand. When we went to the UK we seen a lot of things that, if we moved there, things that would add stress to our life but we also seen a lot of thing that would of relieved a lot of our worries and stress in a major way. A lot of Americans don’t want to comprehend that it’s not the 1920s any more and a lot of things are done better in other parts of the world and it’s not land of opportunity any more… it’s a world of it, all to where it suites a person best.
Nice to watch. Thank you.
My husband lived in walki g distance of many of these sites for 3 tears. I couldn't believe it that he hadn't visited any of them. He soon discovered them when I started taking him around. Even people who live here can be in awe of things, and learn new things every day.
Don't put yourself down mate. You have A beautiful wife, so your'e winning in life. Great vid. Nice one folks.
Thank you very much sir 😊 she is a looker ain’t she lol.
If your ancestors were from Britain, then this is your heritage too
Yes they are I’m kind of mixed I’m mainly English Romany my mothers father was Italian and the rest is English Romany. Why I got an English face and darker features lol
Your colouring is no different to a Celtic have a look at Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Basque
@@Colourmad314 oh yea I’m not without English blood, but mixed, I always wonder how many Brit’s carry a little Romany blood. The slang is a lot of our language to the point I was really watching my words when I spoke. When I say chav or Chavi I mean a kids, but apparently in England it can come off as in insult lol. Easy way to get a nob on top of my head 🤣😂🤣
I have a castle by me and Oliver Cromwell fought a battle there and raised it to the ground near enough. All thats left are the outer walls and the gate house.
Not going to lie, about 4 days ago I read your comment, then researched Oliver Cromwell cuz i didn’t know who that was 😂 I know kind of know and I want to see this castle lol
If you visit the UK 🇬🇧 again ,you must visit the city of Bath ,is awsome
and go to Stonehenge on the way
Has anyone ever told you that you look like the guy that plays Adam Ruzek in Chicago pd TV show. Great channel, keep up the good work
This is the 4th time and I’ve yet to actually watch an episode 🤣😂🤣😂
Thanks very much for your video, I enjoyed watching that.
Don't belittle yourselves, to visit such places is to learn from but also enjoy the experience which you clearly did.
I look forward to the next adventure.
Be well, cheers from Scotland 🍻
Thank you so much for watching! We loved it! Cheers!
Most Heartfelt & Honest Reaction I Have Seen, Well Done Guys, Cheers from England
Thank you very much ☺️
If you haven't been...Westminster Abbey is a must. It's fascinating and where history has been made, you can truly feel the weight of time. It's also the only church where where the Sovereign is baptized, married, coronated and is a royal mausoleum. It's also a Royal Peculiar church, King Charles over seen the Abbey, not the Archbishop of Canterbury. And you're not dumb, London has been a major economic hub for 2000 years and a political capital for 1000 years.
Amazing stories…London is such an amazing place with so much rich history! Would love to go again.
It really is!
Really great video 😀👍🏻
Thank you
You were right to put in the popup of Edgar Allen Poe. The Ravens were probably introduced into the Tower in the latter half of the 19th century when keeping Ravens was a thing. (Dickens had one called 'Grip') The Tower became more a tourist attraction then and they were introduced to add Gothic colour. They are first mentioned in a guidebook during the First World War and it's 'we have Ravens what jolly chaps they are'. The legend doesn't appear in any guidebook until the Second World War.
I know what you’re getting at… but I can’t buy a raven, no matter how edgy and cool it would make me 😂🤣😂 Tiffany would kill me.
I enjoyed your visit to the Tower. I love history and I’m always interested and intrigued by the footprint of the past that surrounds us. Just yesterday, we had to take a diversion and ended up on a road that follows the route of a Roman road. A dead straight road that’s now part of the A30. I imagined then the Roman armies that probably marched it.
I can safely say I have never taken a diversion onto a Roman road in America. However I too would like to see a Roman road. The fact they still exist so strongly today. The closet I’ve seen to a Roman road is the ball in Epcot at Disney talking about talking about Roman roads. lol
Well done. Nothing dumb here. True emotions are much more valuable then some by the book narration. 😊
That was great, i love that you got star struck on objects and places when the reality of their history sank in ,which only really happens to deep thinkers , looked like a great day, nice one
Thank you very much but the real heavy one was the British Museum, that had me in an emotional wreck 🤣😂😂 that vlog is coming up in couple of weeks
William the Conquer invaded in 1066 .He was a Norman from France 🇫🇷. But Norman in old French means North/ Norse Man ,They had come a Viking to France but Stayed and Settled. He did have a Legitimate claim to the English Throne ,English wasn't spoken in 1066 .it took another 400 years to develop. Anglo-Saxon and French was the Language.
Hi guys, just discovered your channel. Don't put yourselves down about not knowing about us Brits and our history... You are NOT dumbe! you said you were here to learn and you did learn... a lot!!! also you enjoyed learning and I (we) have enjoyed it with you. Great video and love your attitude, you've got a new subscriber! Thanks for this.
Thank you so much for the kind words, we got a lot more coming up.
Your the only American without a baseball cap ,you look great , you look British welcome home.
Thank you I wear a hat if I don’t do my hair but I prefer mixing it up lol, I like the style of a flat cap, all the men in my family wear them. goes back to the old country lol also fedoras.
Excellent reaction ❤❤
Thank you 😊
This my history as an English man with over a 1000 year of history in my family but it also yours and we both share that common ancestry in these great islands
I came home never feeling more prouder of my British ancestry in my life, people say British can be stuck up, I love it I want to be stuck up Brit too with a proud history to back it 😂🤣😂
Go over Tower Bridge, keep walking, go down Borough High Street, keep walking, you'll come to the Elephant and Castle, on the right was Lambeth Hospital, Brook Drive, that's where I was born!
And "Come on Eileen" was filmed, walk down the Drive and at the bottom is a Park that we called the Bedlam Park because it was a Mad House but is now The Imperial War Museum, where we played Football on one of the three pitches, played Cricket, swam in the open air Lido.
You are now on Westminster Bridge Rd, keep on walking, walk past St Thomas's Hospital, where my eldest was born, on This Date, TODAY, 22.O4.19**. Over the Thames you can see Big Ben, Houses of Parliament. Below Big Ben, on Victoria Embankment is a, No, THE.. Statue of Queen Bodica and her two daughters that waged war against the Invaders known as the roman Army! The start of the fall of the roman empire! Turn right up Whitehall for 10 Downing St. and the Horseguards.
I love come on Eileen 🤣😂🤣 too ra la ru ey eh lol
Whoever was saying entry is expensive, you can get free carer tickets if you are Disabled. I think you can get discounts combining your rail ticket (you used to) The museums are all free. It’s not that bad. The graffiti is amazing to see.
We come from Disney $175 per person to walk in $5 for a coke $20 for a cheese burger 😂 needless to say, we didn’t think anything in London was overpriced lol. As well as mind blown at free entry.
Never apologise for learning History. History though does change when we learn more. The history we learn at school is what I like to refer to is Base History. It's the history everybody knows. As we learn more through life we add bits which may reinforce or change what we have learned. I work as an Archivist and am constantly looking at old documents (I have a will in front of me at present from 1667, literally!) which I am transcribing. For older history it has to be something monumental to change the story of history but for Modern History; the last couple of hundred years, the complexity of the storyline will change as more documents come to light or people come forward who can remember something differently.
Great video! Bit different from when I visited in 1965!
Glad you enjoyed it
The Beefeaters (nickname) are Yeoman Warders are the Monarch's bodygaurd. Back in the day they would have travelled with the King/Queen. The 32 current Guard are all drawn from the military (mainly the Army), need to have served for at least 22 years, have acheived a certain rank & awarded both a long-service & good-conduct medal. I think the White Tower was completed in 1067?
They must have been Warrant Officers ( highest non commissioned rank in UK forces).
Apparently they have let the RAF and Royal Navy in. 🤣🤣
Okay until this moment I didn’t know yoeman and beef eaters was the same thing. Lol
welcome! Hope you enjoyed your visit! I get to visit the Tower of London very very regularly recently due to some circumstances, so who knows, we could've been there at the same time! No idea if this is true or not but its what I heard, apparently during WW2 when we were bombed, all the ravens apart from one, died, which many people think about the legend (they all die or fly away and the tower or kingdom falls) really could symbolise how close we were to falling, how we hung on by a thin thread... one raven survived.
I have to say I was also watching this video carefully to see if I could spot myself, so far no luck XD
I also heard stories of ghosts in this tower!
You know we heard that story about WWII . I never made the (idk the right word) “ symbolic” connection to all the ravens dying and the actual state of Britain at that time. Almost as if the raven s was Britain’s own doomsday clock “1 raven till midnight “ lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures exactly! It felt cool but creepy hearing about it!
Firstly, great video, I really enjoyed it.
Thank you for your obvious hunger, Interest and passion for our wee Islands history. Yes, we here have been steeped in our history but never think people learning are "dumb". You are just learning!
Thank you for respecting, and not filming our Crown Jewels. I wonder if the people filming would act differently if they were in their own countries...
I look forward to your upcoming videos. One love from Glasgow, Scotland. 💙 And "haste ye back" (come back soon in old Scots). 👌😁👍
So thank you we didn’t film it, because 1. Respect
2. As an American we learned when a person with a large “gum “ tells you to do something… you do it. 😂🤣😂
3rd that’s actually the reason we are having such a hard time with our next vlog. It’s at St. Paul’s, they have no filming when we was there but pictures are fine, and the person at the front desk was very ..not rude …but overly firm with us when we walked in when she seen the camera… but when we walked away another person who either work for the tourist part or the church part said ( not verbatim). “ this is an active church people come here to worship, however I understand your tourist as long as you don’t get the people worshiping And the main cathedral, out of respect, you can film little clips here and there.”
Which was fine because we wasn’t monetized then so we wasn’t making money from TH-cam, now since then we are. So idk how to go about this, maybe just pictures in the cathedral and video in the stairs to the top but only showing us, out of respect? Idk. We are at a standstill over this cuz we want to be respectful but we also want to make the vlog because it’s an impressive site.
@Trippingthroughadventures Far from me to tell you guys how to do your great videos, but perhaps a mix of pictures and video where it is not showing the folks there to worship? I do hope some of our strange rules and quirks don't leave a bad impression. I have seen how respectful you are. I the UK traditions are massive. Keep up the great work, please!
Great T-shirt.
Just enjoy! & Keep Reacting!
Thank you
I believe the store I heard is that "Traitor Gate" should be "Traders Gate". Back then the easiest transport through London was by the river. The Tower of London needed supplying and sothat was where goods and supplies would be delivered. Probably prisoners too would come that way, but traders corrupted to traitors gate - it's been called that for a very long time and it's stuck and unlikely to be changed now.
I have seen that picture of the Duke of Monmouth it’s very creepy.
Yes it is… unless you don’t know the history of it, then it just looks like he’s having a good nap 😂🤣😂
Walked through the Tower walkway regularly when working in London as a Customs Officer. They’ve just in the last few years sold off all the historic Custom House’s. Tragic..
What’s the historic custom houses ?
And look at you - nearly 3k subs ❤
How bout it Lynne, growing like a weed lol 😁
The actual legend about the ravens is that not just the Tower of London, but the whole KIngdom will fall if the 6 resident ravens ever leave the fortress. In 1944 the number of ravens was down to just one (over the course of WW2 the others had died from the bombing or from the general stress of the wartime situation). Winston Churchill arranged for the Tower's raven community to be "restocked" They are officially enlisted as soldiers, and thus required to be present, entitled to be fed and cared for from military funds etc.. They can also be dismissed for "disorderly conduct" ;-)). There is a similar arrangement based on a similar legend for the Barbary Apes of Gibraltar
They should make a whole ceremony of kicking out the ravens… just set in a cage in the middle of the Tower of London, have a high commanding officer come out and tell it off, rip off a fake badge from its cage, throw the badge on the ground and walk away angry horn trumpets and drums and all… I’d pay to see it 🤣😂🤣Makes me wonder how serious the current royals take that superstition🤔 but if you will excuse me, now I got to look up what the whole ape situation is lol 😂
You should look up the Poppy display at the Tower of London.
Floors in stone castles would be built of timber suspended several feet above the stone floor. When you visit a ruined castle you will see the holes left in the stonework where the supporting beams were inserted.
i think they have perfectly replicated the experience of a British schoolchild, i remember walking around the tower at 9 years old in much the same way, knowing the broad strokes of its history and experiencing the awe, but it wasn't until later when i learned more of the history i could really appreciate the memory of things i had stumbled past at the time.
at some point they will realise that during this day trip they wandered past an old crumbling wall that was built by the roman empire a couple of hundred years after the birth of Jesus. im sure that will melt their brains for a day just as it once did mine :)
Some told us about the wall….. it did, we was like “ THERE WAS A ROMAN WALL THERE ?🧐😧😲”
The White Tower is the original 'Tower of London'. All the other building have been added over time.
You may want to watch Billy Beefeater on TH-cam giving guided tours; very funny.
William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066. He and his followers spoke French.
This is why there are many French words in English such as why we say beefburger instead of cowburger.
Would love to hear more from your wife, if she is comfortable doing that.
Thank you I will check him out, she is trying and getting more and more comfortable she’s got a couple of solo vlogs coming up. But she is getting more and more comfortable with it. Couple of things though, this was our first time away from our 2 children, 1-5 since the they was born, so literally never away from them for longer than 2-4 hours since the birth of our 5 year old. So she was constantly off checking on them running back just being a nervous mom lol. And to be fair we was not expecting this type of reaction to our vlogs 😂
I always love the Tower. Living history indeed. But - Yeoman Warders are not "Beefeaters" - that just comes from their picture on Beefeater Gin! "Beefeaters" originally referred to a body of "Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary" - quite separate from the Yeoman Warders of the Tower. They look similar so it has sadly become the common name for them though - and they don't actually like it - as I have seen tell nosy tourists more than one. "Do I look like a gin bottle!" 😁
The beefeater that we talked to was set next to the queens guards and was not the yeoman that was touring us however, the only reason I know this is cuz I asked the beefeater if the queens guard was beefeaters into which she said “no, I’m a beefeater” lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures Think the younger generation have just accepted "Beefeater" as it is what ALL tourist's call them today - even Wiki accepts the change! (Women are VERY new). "Queens/Kings Guard" are just a duty post for the Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Scots, Irish, Welsh - and any other Regiment doing that duty). Sorry! Military nerd speaking.
That's rubbish.
@@user-cp4px2be7p My dad once called a Yeoman Warder a beefeater - and got a right earful. It is not the correct term - but has become more and more accepted, and I notice they now just accept it themselves.
Damn even DEI hires as wardens what a shambles we’ve become.
Idk what that means lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures I'm British and neither do I?
Parts of the Tower of London are Roman, built around 200AD. I think part of it is the wall around the 5:20 mark.
we didn’t know that until after we posted the video and I went back to that spot and stared at it lol. I seen a Roman wall and didn’t realize it lol.😂
I live in Pembroke shire St Wales some of the Ravens are bred in Wales they are paid a wage by the Crown( not money but food one of their favorite is raw pigtails) they cracked them with their beaks to extract the marrow the also have their own sick ward & vet & are cared for by one of the Yeoman Warders who holds the position of Raven Master The White tower is the oldest part & is built of Kentish Rag Stone with Dressed stone from CAEN In France!! TheTower what been a FORTRESS,a PALACE,a PRISON, the First ZOO, the First OBSERVATORY, a MINT(COINAGE), a Place of Exicution 3 Queens & 1WW2 German SPY,& IS HOME TO THE CROWN JEWELS,(That were stolen in the 17th Cty the culperate "Colonel Blood ") was caught in the act then pardoned after being questioned by the King & given a pension of £500 per year & land in Ireland.
I mean pig tails got to be steak to a raven, or maybe a traitor to the crown is like steak to a raven lol idk I hear so much about Wales. I want to go
Whoa that warden was certainly born in London at the sound of "Bow bells"
The twins you refer to were not twins but brothers Edward v who was 12. He became king when his father died. But Edward was never crowned and his brother Richard about 10.
It is thought that their uncle Richard 111 had them murdered. But it has never been proven who arranged for the assassination of the boys.
One person in our entire trip said they was twins, and that was me, right there looking at that camera😂🤣😂 why I said that I had no idea😂🤣😂
There is a lot to take in, you've just scratched the surface, especially with London, although each City, Town and Village has its own unique historical story going way, way back from Vikings, Romans, there is a lot of history on these small islands., just stay curious, your curiosity will be rewarded..
That’s what we love, I know it’s hard for people to watch cuz we walk into these sites at zero lol we are trying to figure out what we are looking at before we can figure out what it’s about 🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures you will be fine, there is enough history here, perhaps pick an era or subject your interested and start with that, good luck and enjoy the adventure
Made me laugh about the lion and your roar after it😂😂😂
😂😂 thank you
The story of the brothers being killed by their uncle after being locked in the Tower has since been disproved.
I'm sure that if a UK couple of your age group had the same experience their reaction would be similar to your own. Your reaction is refreshingly sincere and honest. You're definitely not dumb. Don't be hard on yourself. Best wishes from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Your not dumb. You are learning, and experiencing history. Unlike most people you are trying to esucate your selves. Keep it up as long as you enjoy it! But question : how does it feel seeing things that are older than the USA?
You need to see Bill Callaghan, Beefeater Tower of London guide, very funny.
Very cool love all of our historic places here , I don't think a lot in the US can appreciate how we actually live amongst our old buildings etc my local church dates back to 1080 we just walk past it everyday to work think nothing of it my local pub is dated back to the 1500s which to us is considered pretty new lol 😊.
You can’t blame us, cuz we don’t experience it. Even when we go a lot of us don’t grasp the importance when we look at it. We see Great Britain, we see the castles, but a lot of Americans don’t see the historical significance to their modern life
“ this is the home of king James “
“Who ?”
“You know the Bible you read, that king James “
😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures 🤣
@Tripping through adventures
- The "Crown Jewels" are kept under armed guard in one of the buildings at the tower. Theyve been there since the 1660s.
- James Scottt wasnt the only violent beheading.. look up Margaret Pole - Countess of Salisbury, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Those were messy too. Over 1000 people died at the tower over the years.
- You had to pay the executioner for your own execution, and pray the axe got sharpened that day. The better you paid, the more likely it was gonna be clean and swift.
There’s just so much I seen those while I was editing and got distracted reading about Margret pole lol I think you would need Bible print and books about the size of the Harry Potter series to truly justify the the amount of historical things that went on in the Tower of London alone lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures lol.. pretty much - thats why i only mentioned a couple names lol
There is a world of difference between reading about history and actually walking, seeing and feeling it. That is the emotional part. And no one is dumb when they open their minds to new things and perpsectives.
We have a very long and poroud history here in the UK but I think its great when people from other countries come to learn about that history. How many people can say they stood in a 1,000 year old castle in mostly the same condition it was in when it was built?
And thank you for pointing out the Kings Guards are fully trained combat soldiers and they do ceremonial duty as an extra. Too many people think its like Disneyland and treat them as such. These men's regiments have battle honours going back before the USA became the USA (after our little civil war disagreement).
Just catching up 😇 my son has a learning disability too, he’s doing fine, so are you 😇❤️
Thank you 😇
Thank you . For respecting our history . And your videos are fun to watch . Seeing an outsiders view who seems to enjoy learning our history is a refreshing change from other touristy videos. Keep up the great work . New sub from me .
Thank you very much for the kind words 😊
the tower is very old and was built by William the Conquere who invaded Britain in 1066.
I don't know why you say you're not smart. People who make observations about the flooring not being appropriate for a large open fire are clearly switched on. Also, you had a grasp of elements of the history of the Tower from just a brief visit, so well done. As for American history. It is certainly brief by comparison, but there is plenty there to study. The civil war on its own was an epic 4-5 years, full of heroism, bravery and commitment to the cause - from both sides. And that's from an Englishman.
You should look into why the tower was built, react to the secret city of London cg grey .
What would I type to find this and what is it ?
My Ancester was was married to William the conquers Cousin, his name was Du Falco Comerford which is my maiden name, on my irish Grandads side of the family, I've only found this out recently and it's hard to believe but totally the truth ❤ love watching your videos thank you ❤
We had a major dispute about who should be King about 1455-1487. Different branches of the royal family claimed the throne. The branches were called Lancaster and York; the emblem of Lancaster is the Red Rose, that of York the White Rose. Therefore later historians called this civil war the Wars of the Roses, but at the time it was called the Cousins' War.
King Henry VI ( of Lancaster) - later imprisoned and murdered in the Tower - had mental health problems, and eventually Richard, Duke of York tried to get the throne off him, because in strict hereditary succession he had the better claim. He got executed - in Yorkshire - but his son, Edward IV, got the throne. But in their triumph York had problems. If you get the throne on a legitimacy ticket, it is bit unfortunate if you're the result of your mother playing away, as may have been the case with Edward IV.
This may have been the reason that his younger brother, George, Duke of Clarence, seems to have resented him, and at one stage betrayed him. When George's wife died, he went off the rails, and executed a woman for bewitching his wife! He was convicted of treason; this was difficult, because the punishment was hanging, drawing, and quartering. So he was offered - I've checked the truth of this - a choice of how to go. So, by his request, he was drowned in a butt of wine! ( In the Tower!) (1478.)
A still younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was horrified, and blamed Edward IV's Queen, who had a large and rapacious family.
Edward IV died unexpectedly in 1483. The next King was his elder son, Edward V, aged 13. But Richard, Duke of Gloucester thought Edward's mother's relatives were going to have him killed. So he took over the kingship, as Richard III. It was simply too dangerous to leave Edward V and his brother (Richard, Duke of York) alive.
So they were murdered. I do think Richard III got it done.
In the end, this alienated public opinion, and Henry, Earl of Richmond, the Lancaster claimant, defeated and killed Richard at Bosworth in Leicestershire in 1485, takìng the throne as Henry VII.
Richard's body was buried hastily in a monastery in Leicester. Recently his body was discovered - in a car park ! We held a solemn Re-interment ceremony in Leicester Cathedral.
I believe the English throne does not go in strict hereditary succession, but the most ancient way is for Parliament - or its predecessors - to choose a member of the family, not necessarily the next in line. ("King' means a member of the royal family. )
So… I got a couple of questions( sorry it took so long to write back but we got a lot of comments and we want to make time for stuff like this )
1. Is this where the term war of the roses comes from ?
2. Why does all these royals do stuff that’s sounds made up. Executed in a tub of wine ? 😂🤣😂
3. How have you committed all this to memory 😂🤣😂
Shakespeare started out, in the 1590s, by making a series of history plays, which get steadily better. First of all he wrote Henry VI Part I, Henry VI Part II, and Henry VI Part IIII; these covered the period 1422-1471.
He then wrote Richard II; he reigned 1377 to 1399, but the play covers the period 1397-1400. It contains magnificent speeches. Then he covered the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413), in Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part II, where he introduced humour; then Henry V (reigned 1413-1422).
Finally, this all culminated in 'The Tragedy of King Richard III', who reigned 1483-1485. Shakespeare has been criticised for making Richard III too much of a caricature of a villain. Now, I think Richard III did kill the 'Princes in the Tower' ( Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York), but, although he was a capable man, it was a bit more like 'Breaking Bad'; one decision led to another. Remember, Shakespeare was writing in the reign of Elizabeth I, who was the grand-daughter of Henry VII, who defeated and killed him, so he couldn't very well praise Richard III.
Anyway, all this is leading up to a famous scene in the play Henry VI Part II, when the nobles pick sides in a London garden, by choosing either red or white roses. Therefore later historians call the civil war that then broke out the 'Wars of the Roses'.
Somehow history teachers manage to make history so dull! The whole of our UK history is full of extraordinary incidents! Shakespeare's plays are a good place to start, and many of the plays have been made into films. In particular, the Royal Shakespeare Company has put some of it together in a compilation called 'The Hollow Crown'.
The way George, Duke of Clarence met his end has been doubted, but there is evidence that he was indeed drowned - as it's traditionally put - in a 'butt [ a large barrel] of malmsey'. (Malmsey was I think then a common sweet wine.)
Ambassadors of other countries were safe to report on what was happening, and it is from their reports that we originally got the story. Two things corroborate the story: one was that Clarence's daughter, Margaret, Countess of Salisbury - herself executed by Henry VIII in her old age - being a pious Catholic woman, was painted having a pendant with a barrel on it, presumably in memory of her father; and the fact that, since Clarence had been convicted of treason, he would otherwise have had to be hung, drawn, and quartered. ( Shakespeare, by the way, makes Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( later Richard III) get the murder done, but, although the brothers were estranged ( over an inheritance), I think Richard was horrified by it.)
And I've seen George! Many years ago, I was with our school choir when we sang Evensong in Tewkesbury Abbey, in Gloucestershire, where George, Duke of Clarence is buried. I was permitted to go down the stairs - by the light of a candle - into the Clarence Vault. There, in what looked like a dusty museum case, was a pile of bones, and I remember a skull looking at me...
What had happened was this. Much later an older couple had been buried in that Vault; but in 1760 a terrible flood has disrupted the burials. Any bones they could find were later swept up and dumped in that case. Recently, they have tried to sort out the bones; they have found four incomplete skeletons, of a younger couple, and an older couple. The younger man's skull shows signs of recovery from a head injury; now we know that George suffered a head injury at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, seven years before he was drowned, so that corroborates that.
Incidentally, also in that Abbey is a tomb that was prepared for one of the nastiest nobles in our history, Hugh le Despencer the Younger. Now he got hung drawn and quartered in 1326, and it is recorded that his wife received one shoulder, which is presumably buried in that tomb.
But in the 1970s they were digging in the ruins of Hulton Abbey in Staffordshire, and they found three-quarters of a person... It is believed that that's the rest of Hugh le Despencer...!
I have studied these histories all my life. ( By the way, the history of Scotland is worse...)