Ghost stories have a certain fascination for most people, whether or not they believe in them, and it is difficult to imagine a more appropriate habitation for ghosts (if they exist) than Her Majesty’s Tower of London, with its nine hundred years of eventful and, at times, grim and violent history.
Over the centuries, and indeed in recent times, people have reported inexplicable sights and sounds in the Tower. Yeoman Warder Abbott is to be congratulated on his carefully researched collection of these experiences, made additionally interesting by the inclusion of historic details of the Tower and of the victims whose ghosts are said to haunt their erstwhile prison.
I am confident that the reader will find this little book both interesting and instructive.
Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker
GCB CMG CBE MC
Constable of Her Majesty’s
Tower of London
October 1979