).  I always thought the Tower of London was a tower next to Buckingham Palace.  It’s not.  It is a full-on fortress.  Wayne thought it was a prison, but it is much bigger; it is a palace also.  It is still so secure, that they store the crown jewels there.   We took ourselves on a walking tour.  We only saw half of it.  It was begun by William the Conqueror in 1066.  It has been added on to over the years until it is now a mammoth fortress.  He (William the Conqueror) built the “white castle”.  The Romans began fortifying the site long before that.  It controls the Thames, thus it controls London.  We visited the torture chambers and looked at the rack, the spider (opposite of the rack, it folds you up and then squeezes) and other instruments of torture.  We then saw the Crown Jewels.  No pictures allowed but the diamond on the scepter is the biggest diamond in the world and it is about the size of a baseball. The Kohr-n-Noor diamond is set into the Queen Mother’s crown.   We had lunch in their cafeteria.  In the second picture, you can see the remains of the Roman fortifications.  The last picture, of the wall, shows the built-up of stones added over the ages.