For more information on amending your booking and paying the fee, please email with your booking reference number. You are able to change the name on your booking up to 14 days before your scheduled visit date for an administration fee. The named ticket holder must be in attendance, otherwise your group will not be admitted. Tickets are subject to our normal ticketing terms which can be found here.There are no toilet or refreshment facilities available. The ceremony concludes at 22.05 after which all visitors are escorted to the exit. The meeting point for the Ceremony of the Keys is the main entrance to the Tower of London, West Gate. Visitors will be admitted to the Tower under escort at 21.30 precisely. Please bring the e-ticket accessed via the link on your booking confirmation. Tickets for the Ceremony of the Keys must be pre-booked in advance, online only. Although the monarch may no longer reside at the Tower, the Crown Jewels and many other invaluable objects still do, therefore its importance is still relevant today. Set amidst the mighty battlements of this ancient historic fortress, the Ceremony of the Keys is one of the oldest surviving enactments of its kind. The sentry cries out, 'Halt, who comes there?' The Yeoman Warder replies, 'The keys.' 'Whose keys?' 'King Charles' keys.' 'Pass then, all's well.'Īside from the monarch's name, this is the exact exchange that has been spoken for centuries and forms part of the traditional 'locking up' of the Tower of London.
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