Review the details below. Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries the coronation march for British royalty began at the Tower of London. William the Conqueror built the Tower of London after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Tower of London has served as a political prison, a royal residence, and a place to store weapons , documents, wild animals , and the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Choose the best topic sentence to introduce a paragraph containing these details. The Tower of London has long been of tactical importance to the British monarchy. The Tower of London has played an important but varied role in British history. Few people know the original purpose of the Tower of London.