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  • BLOODY TALES OF THE TOWER

  • Saturday 22 June at 12:00PM
  • National Geographic Channel

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The terrible cries of tortured traitors have given the Tower of London a particularly grisly place in the history of the capital of England.

Brave a trip to the Tower with investigator Joe Crowley and Tudor historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, in the Bloody Tales Of The Tower on Mondays at 8pm, as this gruesome series explores its infamous blood-spattered past.

Bloody Tales Of The Tower: Traitors
All executions at the Tower and nearby Tower Hill were horrific, but a particularly unpleasant end awaited those who betrayed the Crown. In the first episode discover the contrasting fates of three very different traitors, including the case of the last person killed at the Tower by firing squad.

Bloody Tales of The Tower: Executions
Despite its reputation as the home of expert execution, accounts of the time suggest that being put to death in the Tower could be a messy business. Was it a faulty axe or executioner's anxiety which caused the botched beheading of the Duke of Monmouth, who finally lost his head at the fifth blow?!

Bloody Tales Of The Tower: Scandal!
Some say love is a losing game - and in the reign of Henry VIII, the stakes were higher than ever as Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard found to their peril. Examine how two of the promiscuous monarch's wives lost their lives in the Tower following accusations of amorous affairs. Were they victims of a cruel conspiracy?

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Bloody Tales Of The Tower: Executions
    Joe Crowley and Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigate executions held in the Tower of London, including the botched beheading of Charles II's son.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 22 June at 12:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  • Bloody Tales Of The Tower: Traitors
    All Tower executions were horrific but the worst were saved for those who betrayed the crown. Suzannah and Joe reveal how traitors met their end.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 22 June at 1:00PM - National Geographic Channel
  • Bloody Tales Of The Tower: Scandal!
    Suzannah and Joe examine how two of Henry VIII's wives lost their lives in the Tower following accusations of amorous affairs.
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