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Weird Wide Web - Living in the Tower of London─── 15:21 Fri, 16 Jul 2021
We're sure William the Conqueror hardly had college students in mind when he built the Tower of London in the 1070s! Megan Clawson, a 21-year-old, moved into the almost 1,000-year-old tourist attraction last year to save money.
“My dad has been working in the tower for quite a few years and when I moved to London for uni, I realized it was pointless me paying London rent when I could just move in with him so that’s what I did in 2020,” she told Caters News Agency.
Clawson’s father Chris, 52, is a Beefeater (also called a Yeoman Warder) — the uniformed guards guarding the crown jewels in a tradition that has been in place since 1485, according to the BBC.
One perk is on-site accommodation in the outer walls of the tower, available to about 40 families of castle workers, including the Clawsons.
“I live in the walls of the Tower. When it is dark, the Tower looks like a fairy tale fortress,” her father told Lincolnshire Live soon after the 30-year Royal Air Force veteran got the job in 2018. “It is incredibly surreal to say I now live at the Tower of London, you are just immersed in the history and grandeur of it all.” Over the past millennium, the tower has been used as a fortress, a prison and a palace.
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