Fewer ravens at the Tower of London, and the kingdom will fall? This saying isn't actually that old

Ravens are kept at the Tower of London, always more than six, with a dedicated "Ravenmaster" to look after them, feeding them biscuits mixed with ox blood every morning. The reason is summed up in one sentence: if the ravens at the Tower fly away, the White Tower will fall, and England will be finished along with it.

Legend has it that its origin is traced back to Charles II, saying that his astronomer found the ravens a nuisance, and the king ordered them all to be driven away, only to rescind the order after someone advised him. But this story has no records from that time, and historians speculate that it gradually emerged during the Victorian period, with references to the ravens at the Tower only beginning to appear in nineteenth-century paintings and articles.

There are not a few ghosts at the Tower either. The most famous is Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, who was executed at the Tower in 1536, and it is said that someone has seen her carrying her own head down the corridor. There are also the two boys who disappeared at the Tower in 1483, King Edward V and his brother, known as the "Princes in the Tower", and people say they have heard children's footsteps at night. In 1674, workers dug up two children's bones under a staircase at the Tower, which were later moved to Westminster Abbey, and to this day there is no conclusion as to whether they are those two children.

During World War II, the ravens at the Tower were once down to just one, and Churchill ordered them to be replenished quickly.

Now the ravens at the Tower have part of their wings clipped, so they can't fly far. Each one has a name, a number, and even a small "file", and if one flies away, the next day's news will see Britons asking: Can the King's Tower still stand?

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