From 1235 until 1835, the monarch’s personal zoo was kept at the Tower, and it included many exotic animals given as presents by other monarchs, including polar bears, leopards and elephants.
This cemetery’s most famous resident is Karl Marx. In 1970 it became the scene of a mass hunt for the ‘Highgate Vampire’, sparked by local rumours of supernatural activity.
Westminster Abbey was built by Edward the Confessor and completed just before his death in 1065. Since William the Conqueror all the kings & queens of England have been crowned here.
