Historical re-enactment at the Tower of London

My wife wanted to show the kids the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London. She remembered going there years ago and more or less just wandered in when she felt like it. A little bit different today. By lunchtime the queue was something like two-hours-worth of waiting long. So we gave up that idea and found other things to see. Including this bit of historical re-enactment to accompany the ceramic-poppies adorning the moat for World War 1. I am also slowly ploughing my way through Margaret MacMillan's book on how that war all started so, understand a little of the historical context to that tragic event. Great book, by the way. I'm only a third of the way through but I think her thesis is shaping up to argue that it was depressingly inevitable, not the unfortunate unitended consequence of an assassination.

We also had the unfortunate experience of meeting the train-station uniformed bureaucrat from hell at London Bridge station. A real shame as everyone else we've met in London have been really helpful and generally wonderful.