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The Queen's house was built
in about 1530 and possibly replaced a medieval constable's house. Originally it contained a spacious hall 2 stories
high. Later a floor was added to the upper part of the hall creating a room called the Council Chamber. In the
north wing is a small room where Anne Boleyn spent the last days of her life. On the west is the rampart known
as Elizabeth's walk. Next to it stood the house where Lady Jane Grey lived as a prisoner. It was from the windows
of that house she saw her husband escorted from the adjoining Beauchamp Tower to his execution on Tower Hill. She
then witnessed his headless body being brought back for burial in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula
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