The Ghost of the Tower of London and Anne Boleyn

Record summary

Anne Boleyn’s execution at the Tower of London generated later apparition traditions, including reports of a headless female figure associated with the chapel, stairways, or grounds. The Tower is an especially useful comparison site because multiple historical deaths, state imprisonment, tourism narratives, and layered ghost traditions overlap in one documented complex. The execution and Tudor history are well established; the apparition reports are later and vary in date and detail. Researchers should distinguish official Tudor records from nineteenth-century guidebooks and popular ghost literature.