ChatterBank0 min ago
The Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower.
I was privileged to watch this once, and the fabulous sense of a 700 year continuous - "every night without fail" - history adds greatly to the sense of occasion. This is the main exchange:
Sentry: Who comes there?
Chief Warder: The keys.
S: Whose keys?
CW: Queen Elizabeth's keys. (identifying the keys as being those of the current British monarch)
S: Pass Queen Elizabeth's Keys. All's well.
I did ask on the night I was there, but no-one seemed to know. Someone here will, though, so here's the question:
Whose keys were they after Charles 1st was executed?
Sentry: Who comes there?
Chief Warder: The keys.
S: Whose keys?
CW: Queen Elizabeth's keys. (identifying the keys as being those of the current British monarch)
S: Pass Queen Elizabeth's Keys. All's well.
I did ask on the night I was there, but no-one seemed to know. Someone here will, though, so here's the question:
Whose keys were they after Charles 1st was executed?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'd be cautious about taking statements like "every night without fail" at face value.
I'd ask how they know, you may find out that this is "traditional knowledge" rather than strict fact.
Especially as it seems that the Yeoman guard followed Prince Charles into Exile
http://emea.nai.com/E...istance%20Program.pdf
The question then arises who in this case would be performing this ceremony
I'd ask how they know, you may find out that this is "traditional knowledge" rather than strict fact.
Especially as it seems that the Yeoman guard followed Prince Charles into Exile
http://emea.nai.com/E...istance%20Program.pdf
The question then arises who in this case would be performing this ceremony
Don't suppose you asked him how he knew this did you?
This is really rather interesting because I suspect that it is our equivilent of an oral history tradition. Unless anyone comes up with documentary evidence for this (and that might well not exist) it's very similar to the sort of oral history that you get with pre-literate civilisations.
I suspect that this has been passed down through generations of Yeoman warders and others working at the Tower and has become folklore. Probably impossible to prove or disprove in the same way that the traditions of say aboriginals are
This is really rather interesting because I suspect that it is our equivilent of an oral history tradition. Unless anyone comes up with documentary evidence for this (and that might well not exist) it's very similar to the sort of oral history that you get with pre-literate civilisations.
I suspect that this has been passed down through generations of Yeoman warders and others working at the Tower and has become folklore. Probably impossible to prove or disprove in the same way that the traditions of say aboriginals are