How did the King and Queen live in the London Tower?

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Question:

Did the live elegantly or not so much!?

Im doing a school report and I cant find anything on where and how she lived!.

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They lived very elegantly for the times - but compared to modern digs, they were pretty bleak!. There was no indoor plumbing, or electric lighting, which means no air conditioning or furnaces for heating so the whole place was drafty, cold in the winter and hot in the summer!. However, that was par for the course in those days!. They had sumptuous hangings on the wall (not for artistic merit but to cut down on drafts) and they lived very well for the times!.
You refer to 'they' and to 'she' - which kings and/or queens are you thinking about!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

From Historic Royal Palaces:

The Medieval Palace at the Tower of London contained fabulous interiors used by medieval kings and queens during their frequent but short visits to their most important fortress!.

King Edward I’s financial accounts record a payment of ‘11 shillings and a penny for timber, boards and sawn panels for a bed for the lord King and for transporting it through England’!.

This piece of information was our starting-point for re-creating Edward’s bed, and you can see it in the royal bedchamber in St Thomas’s Tower!.

The little chantry off the bedchamber is one of the most peaceful and evocative spaces in the whole of the Tower of London!.

http://www!.hrp!.org!.uk/TowerOfLondon/stor!.!.!.

Historic Royal Palaces

http://www!.hrp!.org!.uk/TowerOfLondon/stor!.!.!.

From wiki:

The Inmost Ward
In the early thirteenth century Henry III (reigned 1216-72) transformed the Tower into a major royal residence and had palatial buildings constructed within the Inner Bailey to the south of the White Tower!. This Inmost Ward was entered by the now ruined Coldharbour Gate to the NW and bounded by a wall, fortified by the Wakefield Tower to the SW, the Lanthorn Tower to the SE, and the now ruined Wardrobe Tower to the NE!. The well appointed Wakefield Tower and the Lanthorn Tower were integral parts of this new royal palace, and adjoined the now demolished Great Hall situated between them!. The Tower remained a royal residence until the time of Oliver Cromwell, who demolished some of the old palatial buildings!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Tower_of_Lo!.!.!.
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It depends on which queen you are doing your assignment on!

Balmoral
Windsor Castle

I have copied a link to info on the Tower of London below!.
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