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• The final room is the epilogue of the jewels collection, with videos showing attendants
putting all of these precious items back into their cases after the last corona-
tion—emphasizing that these aren't just pretty museum pieces, but a vital part of an ongo-
ing tradition.
Leave the jewels by exiting through the thick vault doors. Back near the Traitor's
Gate you'll find the next two sights. The entrance to the Bloody Tower is at the far end of
Tower Green.
Bloody Tower
Not all prisoners died at the block. The 13-year-old King Edward V and his kid brother
were kidnapped in 1483 during the Wars of the Roses by their uncle Richard III (“Now is
the winter of our discontent...”) and locked in the Bloody Tower, never to be seen again.
End of story? Two centuries later, the skeletons of two unidentified children were found
here; the 2013 discovery of the remains of Richard III (in Leicester, in central England)
may allow modern forensics to solve this centuries-old mystery.
