Unique behind the scenes access to one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions. This fascinating series combines modern day life at the Tower of London, as well as covering its rich and colourful history as a palace, fortress, dungeon and treasure house. The eight-part series explores the landmark’s rich, absorbing and sometimes surprising past, through the people that live and work there today. For the first time, Britain’s most popular historic attraction, Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London has allowed access to television cameras creating a documentary series that goes to the heart of The Tower’s history and inhabitants. Within The Tower’s walls almost a thousand years of the nation's history has been played out. In this fortress, founded by William the Conqueror, Anne Boleyn was executed, Guy Fawkes was interrogated, Walter Raleigh and Princess Elizabeth were incarcerated and the Princes in The Tower were murdered. But as the series will reveal, it has a dark recent history too – spies were executed in The Tower in the First and Second World Wars – and German U-Boat men and Rudolph Hess were held as POWs in the Tower. The Tower has played a part in virtually every moment in Britain's history, but it is still a living community.