The Tower is London's oldest fortress. Many historical events are associated with it, both the city and the country as a whole. The Tower Walls have seen a lot in their lifetime, especially in those years when the fortress began to be used as a prison. The most terrible torture and executions in the Tower were initiated by Henry VIII. By his order, everyone who posed a threat to the English throne and did not want to obey the monarch was tortured and executed in the fortress walls. By order of Henry VIII, his second wife, Anne Boleyn, was also executed in the Tower, who could not give birth to an heir-son to the monarch.
This was one of the reasons why the king decided to get rid of his wife. He didn’t think too much about how to do this and simply accused his wife of betrayal and adultery. The execution took place on May 19, 1536. Anne Boleyn was publicly beheaded. After the execution, her body was placed in a small, crudely put together coffin, which was buried in the territory of the Tower Fortress.
Years after the Queen's execution, strange and inexplicable phenomena began to occur in the Tower. People began to say that the restless spirit of Anne Boleyn was wandering around the fortress, which appeared in the form of a floating female figure in long white robes.
From 1864, Anne Boleyn became known as the Woman in White. This was the case. Once the captain of the guard, during a round, found a soldier at one of the posts, who was in a deep faint. When the sentry was brought to his senses, he said that he saw a woman in a white robe near the room in which Anne Boleyn was until the moment of execution. She headed towards the guard, as if floating on air. She did not react to the sentry's order to stop and continued moving. Then the soldier decided to stop her and hit her with a bayonet. In horror, at the sight of the bayonet entering the woman, as if into a fog, the soldier fell unconscious. At first, the captain did not believe the soldier, deciding that he had invented everything, wanting to justify his dream at the post. The soldier would inevitably face execution, if not for the testimony of his colleagues, who, giving evidence under oath, sworethat also a mysterious figure was repeatedly seen next to that unfortunate room. The descriptions of the ghost exactly matched the words of the arrested sentry.