Americans Learn British History At The Tower of London 

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 😂😂

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.

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.

Agreed what’s the saying, “in order to see where your going, you have to know where you came from “

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.

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!

Thank you we can’t wait to learn more

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 😂

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.

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”

Thank you very much it’s such an amazing history and some of it just sounds to crazy to be real 😂

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 . 🙂

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.

This is something we want to check out thank you 😊

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.

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.

Thank you for the kind words

Thank you very much, funny how a few miles completely changes a persons point of view lol

Do you realize how made up that sounds, the royals was the original extreme influencers 😂🤣😂

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.

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 “ 🤣😂🤣😂

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 🤣😂🤣😂

Thank you for watching

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.

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 😂

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 🙏 👏

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?

This is the 4th time and I’ve yet to actually watch an episode 🤣😂🤣😂

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.

See that’s British, “yea the zoo was a little side project after creating Singapore” 🤣😂🤣 really cool history!

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...

Thank you 😊

Thank you very much ☺️

Thank you so much for watching! We loved it! Cheers!

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.

Thank you so much for the kind words, we got a lot more coming up.

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.

Thank you

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

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.

It really is!

and go to Stonehenge on the way

Thank you very much sir 😊 she is a looker ain’t she lol.

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

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!

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 RU-vid, 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!

Besides the perfecting of recipes one could only imagine. I’d like to see India one day.

I screen snapped this so we can check it out thanks for the information 🙂

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.

Glad you enjoyed it

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 😂

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

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

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 😂🤣😂

How bout it Lynne, growing like a weed lol 😁

Thank you 😊

Some told us about the wall….. it did, we was like “ THERE WAS A ROMAN WALL THERE ?🧐😧😲”

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 😂

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 love come on Eileen 🤣😂🤣 too ra la ru ey eh lol

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.

What’s the historic custom houses ?

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😂🤣😂

Idk what that means lol

@@Trippingthroughadventures I'm British and neither do I?

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

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

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 🤣😂🤣

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...)

Thank you very much for the kind words 😊

😂😂 thank you

Yes it is… unless you don’t know the history of it, then it just looks like he’s having a good nap 😂🤣😂

Well thank you for your service, it’s always been a joint effort between our two nations that kept us safe, so your actions in your time of service was just as important to me and my fellow country man as it was to your own, Rather you never seen a day of battle, or fought from day one, or anywhere in between. You chose that gamble, chance and time decide the rest. So thank you deeply for your service. Secondly this literally sounds like a children’s book. 😂🤣😂 you’d probably get good money writing down your old pals antics, I sure got a kick out of it lol.

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

Thank you

People do a lot of things now they use to not do, people has lost respect for themselves much less other people. Sadly

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 🤣