When a fire broke out near the Jewel House at the Tower of London in 1841, nobody could find the keys! The keepers had to hack the bars apart with an axe and pull the jewels out.

One September day in 1738, George II was accosted and harassed in Kensington Gardens by a man dressed in women’s clothes.

Legend has it that Anne Boleyn’s extra finger proved she was a witch.

The enormous Cardinal spider is found only at Hampton Court.

In 1741, two lions, named Marco and Phillis, lived in the menagerie at the Tower of London with their cub Nero. Jenny the panther lived there too.

George III’s daughters lived secluded lives at Kew Palace, or ‘the nunnery’ as some liked to call it.

People ate lots of meat during Tudor period. In one year, the court ate: 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 1,870 pigs, 1,240 oxen, 760 calves, 53 wild boar!

Margaret Beaufort was only 13 when she gave birth to the future Henry VII. By that time, she had already been married twice.

Prince Llewelyn of Wales was killed in battle in 1282. Edward I had his head cut off, crowned with ivy and stuck on a spike at the Tower.