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Windsor Castle

royal residence at Windsor in Berkshire, England, UK

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Windsor Castle is a royal residence located in Windsor, Berkshire, England, where members of the British royal family live and conduct official business. It is one of the most important and recognizable castles in the United Kingdom because of its historical significance and its role as a working palace for the monarchy.

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Elevation: 180
Official website: www.rct.uk/visit/windsorcastle
Image: Windsor Castle at Sunset - Nov 2006.jpg

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Commons category: Windsor Castle
postal code: SL4 1NJ
Commons Institution page: Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
inception: 1070-00-00
OS grid reference: SU9700277033
native label: Windsor Castle
street address: Windsor SL4 1NJ
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P8168: Beatrice de Frangepan

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Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles (40 km) west of central London. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.

The original castle was built in the 11th century, after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I (who reigned 1100–1135), it has been used by the monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish early 19th-century state apartments were described by the 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". Inside the castle walls is the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by the historian John Martin Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic" design.