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Windsor Castle, part of the Occupied Royal Palaces Estate, is owned by Charles III in right of the Crown, [239] and day-to-day management is by the Royal Household. [240] In terms of population, Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and the longest-occupied palace in Europe, but it also remains a functioning royal home. [241]
Windsor Castle's State Apartments have officially been decked out with Christmas decorations. The centerpiece of the seasonal decor is a 20-foot-high Nordmann Fir tree, located in St George’s Hall.
View of the Long Walk from Snow Hill, toward Windsor Castle. The tree-lined 2.64 miles (4.25 km) avenue known as the Long Walk was originally a path from Windsor Castle to Snow Hill. The high ground is said to have been the location where Henry VIII waited to hear the news that his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed.
St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch), and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter.
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Queen Victoria Enters. By the time Queen Victoria took up residence at Windsor, major renovations of the castle's exterior with the grand vision of George IV and additions to the interiors, like a ...
The former covered corn market. The full image shows the apparent gaps at the top of four inside columns.. A deed of 1369, now in the possession of Eton College, refers to the "gildaule", and a charter of 1439 states that "pleas happening in the said borough ... shall be pleaded and holden in the guildhall there, before the mayor and bailiffs for the time being". [2]
Windsor Castle is all decked out for Christmas. The royal residence unveiled its 2024 holiday decor on Thursday, November 21, and to say the grounds are decorated impeccably is an understatement.