[00:01.00]Windsor Castle is the ultimate monument to English tradition.
[00:05.20]But it's also more than that.
[00:07.00]It's a building that at different times in our history has stood as a symbol of momentous change.
[00:12.85]Windsor is the oldest,and the largest inhabited castle in the world.
[00:19.25]It's been home to the country's monarchs for almost 1,000 years.
[00:23.84]And it certainly looks every inch an ancient medieval fortress.
[00:29.78]But the fascinating thing with this castle is that not everything about it is as it seems.
[00:36.47]From the outside,
[00:37.37]the heavy stone battlements and looming towers make it a forbidding spectacle.
[00:43.55]Yet what makes it so special is how a castle was transformed into a palace.
[00:50.99]Because Windsor is the creation of different monarchs,
[00:54.04]each with their own style and ambition.
[00:56.93]The elegant rooms,the works of art,the grand and the intimate,the strange and the exotic.
[01:09.06]During its long life,
[01:10.45]Windsor has been many things - a home to medieval chivalry and romance,
[01:16.59]a baroque palace to restore royal fortunes after a king lost his head,
[01:22.28]and an architectural fantasy.