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