The Tower of London is installing a slide for visitors as the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Those visiting the cultural site can grab a mat and zip down the side of the moat on an eight-metre slide.
The giant slide is part of its celebrations to mark the monarch’s 70 years on the throne.
It is also filling its moat with wild flowers to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Gardeners are currently busy planting 20 million seeds at the cultural site to grow into a meadow called ‘Superbloom’.
It will see the moat become a welcoming new habitat and a green haven for pollinators, insects and seed-eating birds.
Tom O’Leary, Director of Public Engagement at Historic Royal Palaces, told People magazine: “We want to give visitors to Superbloom the chance to arrive in the flowers with a sense of occasion and fun — and what better way to do that than entering the Tower of London’s moat via a huge slide?”
‘Superbloom’ will open in June and last until September.
Once it ends, the new natural landscape created to support it will remain in the moat as a permanent Jubilee legacy.
The scheme was designed by Historic Royal Palaces, working with landscape architects Grant Associates and University of Sheffield Professor of Planting Design, Nigel Dunnett.
Historic Royal Palaces, the charity which runs the Tower and other famous former royal residences including Hampton Court, has put on a number of successful temporary attractions over the years.
This includes the popular ceramic poppy display in 2014 and a sea of 10,000 flames to mark the centenary of the end of First World War in 2018.
Back in 1977, to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, there was also a temporary ‘E II R’ flowerbed laid out in the moat.
