Windsor Castle - Order of the Garter, William of Wykeham, Dean and Canons of Windsor, Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Order of the Garter, William of Wykeham, Dean and Canons of Windsor, Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles, St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Jeffry Wyattville, 1992 Windsor Castle fire, Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Constables and Governors of Windsor Castle, The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, St George's School, Windsor Castle, Security of Windsor Castle, Archaeology of Windsor Castle, Queen Mary's Dolls' House, Dean of Windsor, Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Household Cavalry Regiment, Military Knights of Windsor, Royal Librarian, The Waterloo Chamber, Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor, Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo, Victoria Barracks, Windsor Castle, Waterloo ceremony, Combermere Barracks, Fendersmith. Excerpt: Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it has been used by a succession of monarchs and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish, early 19th-century State Apartments are architecturally significant, described by art historian Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste." The castle includes the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by historian John Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic" design. More than five hundred people live and work in Windsor, making it the largest inhabited castle in the world. Originally designed to protect Norman dominanc...