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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]
The Windsor Castle is a former public house on Harrow Road, Maida Vale, London. It was a seminal rock venue throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with notable early performances from The Rolling Stones, The Who and U2. [1] The building is a designated heritage asset. [2]
The Home Park is divided from the main Windsor Great Park by the busy Albert Road (A308) towards Old Windsor.It is the private estate of the castle.As well as beautiful parkland, gardens and avenues of fine trees, it contains farmland (cattle grazing and winter feed), a golf course, a bowling green (for the Royal Household Bowling Club), a cricket field (for the Royal Household Cricket Club ...
During the reign of King Henry II (1154 - 1189), he started to replace Windsor Castle's walls with stone, and converted the castle into a palace, and added royal apartments.
Although this has been less well publicised than Buckingham Palace, security at Windsor Castle has occasionally been breached, most seriously in 2003 when an intruder (the self-styled "comedy terrorist", Aaron Barschak) "gate-crashed" the 21st birthday party of Prince William, but most recently in March 2012, when an intoxicated man scaled a fence and got within yards of the Queen's private ...
Windsor Castle is almost as famous as its inhabitants, including the late Queen Elizabeth II. This stunning estate is the world's longest-occupied palace in the world, housing 40 British monarchs ...
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.
Waterloo Chamber in 2009. The Waterloo Chamber, dating from 1830 to 1831, is a large room in Windsor Castle dedicated to the military defeat of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte by British, Prussian, Russian, and Austrian forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.