I AM SO TIRED.

Nobody was moving very quickly today in spite of our tour guide’s prompting. After breakfast, we headed out to the Tower of London. On the way I learned that the current theory of why Henry VIII went nuts is from a traumatic brain injury sustained in a fall during a joust. To me this makes a lot more sense than insanity due to syphilis. It explains the rapid mood shifts as well as his increasing size and unpredictability.

I also learned (and this was an ‘oh duh’ moment) that it really isn’t in the monarchy’s best interests to do some dna testing on the remains currently presumed to be the lost princes in the tower. If the bones turn out to not belong to the sons of Edward IV, it calls into question the entire succession and could mean that Charles isn’t king after all.

Here are some pictures from the tower:

After the tower we went over to St Paul’s cathedral. Here are some pictures: