Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Queen's Abode

Too bad! We were not able to make it to Windsor Castle on time. It was already past five in the afternoon when we left Legoland and expectedly, we didn’t make it for the castle’s visiting hours. But we were able to capture some photos from the outside.

Windsor Castle is the official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years and it remains a working palace today. If only we were able to come on time, for some amount, we could have walked around the State Apartments, extensive suites of rooms at the heart of the working palace. For certain part of the year, visitors can also see the Semi State rooms, which are some of the most magnificent interiors in the castle. They are furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Lawrence, fine tapestries and porcelain, sculpture and armour. Within the Castle complex there are many additional attractions, including the Drawings Gallery, Queen Mary's dolls' house, and the fourteenth-century St. George's Chapel, the burial place of ten sovereigns and setting for many Royal weddings.

Oh! I’m really looking forward to visiting it again with my much-awaited visitors from the Pinas. ;-). This time, I’ll make sure that I get to go inside. ‘Til then…



The magnificent Windsor Castle





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