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This was built in 1530 to replace a medieval structure. In the north wing is a small room where Anne Boleyn spent her final days. To the west is the rampart commonly known as Elizabeth's walk.
Next to it stood a house where Lady Jane Grey lived as a prisoner. She watched the guards escort her husband, Guilford from the Beauchamp Tower to the site of
his execution on Tower Hill. She then watched as they brought his headless corpse back for burial in the Chapel Royal.
This structure is reportedly haunted by Anne Boleyn, probably the mst famous ghost of the Tower. Her ghost is seen in the vicinity. Anne is the most
commonly reported ghost at the Tower. Some reports make her sound the most fearsome; appearing "with her head tuck'd 'neath her arm"
Her life was not a happy one. She was forced into a realtionship with Henry VIII, since after he became enamored of her, he banished her fiancee, Henry percy, from court, and forbade any other
men to court her. When she married him, she was already pregnant with the future Queen Elizabeth I. Perhaps if Henry VIII had seen what a magnificent
ruler she would be, he would not have behaved so badly towards her mother. Anne suffered at least two miscarriages after that, both had been male children.
Henry grew tired of waiting. He already had his eye on one of Anne's ladies, Jane Seymour. her ambitious family made sure the King remained alienated from Anne, and Jane employed the same tactics Anne had used to
"bewitch" Henry VIII. Anne's enemies had her arrested on a manufactured charge of adultery and executed her and all of her best friends.
Witnesses have described a female figure - she was identified as Anne Boleyn by her dress. She can also be seen leading a ghostly procession of nobles down the aisle of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.
Her headless body has also been seen walking the halls of this and other buildings in the tower.
In 1864, a sentry standing guard in the Queen's House saw a white, misty figure approaching him. He challenged the intruder. When there was no reply to his challenge, he ran thr figure through with
his bayonet. The bayonet went straight through the figure and the sentry went straight into shock! He probably would not have been believed were it not for the testimony of two witnesses
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