A short distance from the Tower is Tower Green. Despite its grisly history, only seven people were ever beheaded there, prisoners of a lower social standing were hung on Tower Hill. The most famous people to lose their head were Henry’s two unfortunate wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. You can see the executioner’s axe + chopping block in the White Tower museum. Their bodies are said to lay under the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula.A short distance from the Tower is Tower Green. Despite its grisly history, only seven people were ever beheaded there, prisoners of a lower social standing were hung on Tower Hill. The most famous people to lose their head were Henry’s two unfortunate wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. You can see the executioner’s axe + chopping block in the White Tower museum. Their bodies are said to lay under the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula.
A short distance from the Tower is Tower Green. Despite its grisly history, only seven people were ever beheaded there, prisoners of a lower social standing were hung on Tower Hill. The most famous people to lose their head were Henry’s two unfortunate wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. You can see the executioner’s axe + chopping block in the White Tower museum. Their bodies are said to lay under the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula.