Tag: westminster
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Poet’s Corner: Their final chapter in Westminster Abbey
Is Westminster Abbey just a church to you? Or simply a must-visit in London? Let me tell you, it’s far more than that. Apart from being one of the most famous and historically significant churches in England, this thousand-year-old abbey is a perfect blend of history and mystery. It’s where Queen Victoria’s coronation took place,…
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Decoding Big Ben: Is it just a tall clock tower?
Anna Quindlen once wrote, “London opens to you like a novel itself… it\’s divided into chapters, chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors, and passages.” Today, I finally decided to open the chapter titled Big Ben. Ever since my childhood, London was the city of…