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fortress, a palace, a prison and a royal zoo.

Now it is a beautiful museum. Black ravens always live in the yard near the Tower. People keep them and look after them very well.

are also known as Beefeaters. Some sources claim Yeoman

are called Beefeaters because they received daily meat rations for their duties. Other sources claim that it is derived from the French 'buffetier' which meant "an attendant on the royal buffets" or "guard of the king's food". The French word was Anglicized into buffeters and changed into Beefeaters with time. Another explanation might be that they used to be well fed while most ordinary people where not.

Beefeaters

often referred to as Yeoman of the Guard. This

is actually a corps of Royal Bodyguards.
The confusion about their name isn't helped by the fact that their full and proper title is: 'Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary'.

Yeoman Warders as Yeoman of the Guard

jewels

a serious business, since legend has it that, ‘If the

ravens leave the Tower, the kingdom will fall…

the ravens from their slumbers and feeds them breakfast.

old – though it has been refurbished and re-gilded

down the years. In 1649, the spoon was sold rather than being destroyed with the rest of the medieval crown jewels. This extraordinary survival is used at the Coronation for holy oil.

The Coronation Spoon

Great Star of Africa, was added to the top

of the Sovereign’s Scepter with Cross (1661) in 1910. It remains the largest colourless cut diamond in the world.

The Sovereign's Scepter with Cross