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Windsor Castle is considered to be the largest colonised castles around today and the eldest in continuous occupation (over nine hundred years). It’s 1 of the Queen’s 3 key homes, and is repeatedly thought to be easily her most favourite home. The Royal flag flies over the Round Tower of Windsor Castle every time the Queen is in residence – at other times, the Union Jack flag flutters in its place.

Samuel Pepys once proclaimed the Castle to be “the single most passionate castle in the world.” That was believed in sixteen-sixty-six and the equivalent has been said today.

Windsor Castle Absorbing History:

The start of Windsor can be seen in the beginning of the 7th century Saxon hamlet of Windlesora, where the present day community of Old Windsor can be located. The settlement of Windsor is commonly identified as “New Windsor” – the actual phrase “new” being taken in a relative sense! Buy Windsor Castle tickets at great prices from Enjoy England.

Windsor Castle was at first constructed by the distinguished William the Conqueror, following his invasion of England in ten-sixty-six. The original structure was assembled from wood with mud ramparts. Palace held an understandable tactical position on a big hill just above the River Thames, & was a fraction of a set of palaces around London, with the Tower of London, one whole days ride away, at its hub.

The Castle was then later reconstructed in stone, & rose in importance over the subsequent years. In recent times Henry II made the Round Tower & the original stone outer wall. After the English Civil War, the building’s chief role became that of a royal palace. The Castle has stayed for the most part unchanged ever since the start of the 19th century, apart from the renovation job that followed the great fire in 1992.

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