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Holiday in the U.K. - London

Pictures of our vacation to England and Scotland, July 13-27, 2000.

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If you ever wanted to buy swordfish, diamonds and a riding crop in the same place, Harrods department store is your Mecca.

Preacher at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. Sign around his neck says: "Polygamy is a crazy idea. A Muslim will have four mothers-in-law." Yes, but that means he has four wives.

Queue to get in the Tower. To give you the feeling of imprisonment.

Me and the silent but deadly Guard (who remembered his laundry at the dry cleaners, to reference a popular commercial).

On this site stood a scaffold on which were executed:
Queen Anne Boleyn
Second Wife of Henry VIII
19 May 1536
Margaet, Countess of Salisbury
Last Plantagenent Princess
28 May 1541
Queen Kathrine Howard
Fifth wife of Henry VIII
13 Feb 1542
Jane, Viscountess Rochford
Wife of Anne Boleyn's brother
13 Feb 1542
Lady Jane Grey
Uncrowned Queen of 9 days
12 Feb 1554
Robert Devereux
Earl of Essex
25 Feb 1601
Lord Hastings
was also beheaded near the spot in 1483

"Yeah! Off with their heads! Traitors! Boo! Hiss!"



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