This is the updated standard history of one of the greatest royal palaces. Founded as a formidable fortress beside the River Thames in 1070, the centuries have brought memories as varied as enriching. In 1110 King Henry I holds his court 'for the first time at the New Windsor'. In 1348 King Edward III founds the Order of the Garter. Here, in what before long is to become 'Shakespeare's Windsor' of ditch and mead and midnight bell, Queen Elizabeth I celebrates the first Christmas of her reign. With Cromwell's troops ousted, King Charles II's nephew, Prince Rupert Count Palatine, returns to take possession of the castle that Pepys finds 'the most romantique in the world'. Queen Anne receives the news of the victory of Blenheim in 1704 as she sits in her oriel, 'the Blenheim Tower'. In 1778 George III begins the restoration and conversion. Workmen find the embalmed body and severed head of King Charles I as they excavate the new royal vault in St George's Chapel. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert spend their honeymoon here. Queen Elizabeth II holds her first installation service in St George's Chapel in 1954, and in the splendid procession walks the newly invested Knight of the Garter, Sir Winston Churchill. So the story goes on to the present day.

Windsor Castle

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"Mayflower" and the Pilgrim Fathers (Pride of Britain)

Pitkin Pictorials

Confinement in the Tower of London has been the lot of more people than can now be numbered. Many of its prisoners are beyond remembrance. Their very names have been forgotten. Most of those whom history commemorates are drawn from the long roll of kings and queens, statesmen and ecclesiastics committed to its towers, which only too often they exchanged for the still narrower straitness of the grave. This booklet offers a brief but engaging look at some of the more memorable prisoners, from the rapacious prelate Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham and minister of William II, who was imprisoned in 1100 (and later escaped), to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy during World War II. Hess was imprisoned from May of 1941 until 6 October 1945, when "in the cells of Nuremberg he rejoined such of his colleagues as had survived the war and were being tried for their lives by their conquerors."

Prisoners in the Tower

Pitkin Pictorials, Ltd

London in Pictures (Pitkin 'pride of Britain' books) Paperback - Import, June, 1973 by Olwen Hedley

London in Pictures

Pitkin

Kensington Palace: The State Apartments (Pride of Britain)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Beautifully illustrated. 32p. Includes Banqueting House, Whitehall,Westminster, Tower of London, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, etc.

Royal Palaces

Pitkin Guides

Over the centuries there have been many 'guests' at the Tower of London: patriots, rebels and kings, suspected of heresy, sorcery and treason.

Prisoners in the Tower (Pitkin Guides)

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