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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]
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.
On 20 November 1992, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch.The castle suffered extensive damage and was fully repaired within the next five years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates.
The Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle is in charge of Windsor Castle in England on behalf of the sovereign. The day-to-day operations are under the Superintendent, who is an officer of the Master of the Household's Department of the Royal Household. The Constable receives no salary, but has a residence in the Castle.
The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. The chapel was commissioned by Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, George VI and for herself after her death in 2022, it was completed in 1969.
Drawing showing Wyatville's Gothic transformation to the buildings of the upper ward of Windsor Castle Drawing showing the intended changes to the Prince of Wales Tower at Windsor Castle. Sir Jeffry Wyatville RA (3 August 1766 – 18 February 1840) [1] was an English architect and garden designer.
Windsor Castle is together with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. The castle is located in the Berkshire town of Windsor , in the Thames Valley to the west of London .
Windsor Castle was the scene of two remarkable finds: In the Upper Ward, the foundations of the Round Table building erected in 1344 by Edward III were discovered, and also, among other finds, a spectacular decorated mediaeval tile in situ . [ 2 ]