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Did you know Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world? Successive monarchs from William the Conqueror onwards have had a hand in extending and altering the building. What began as a motte and bailey fortress to dominate the Thames metamorphosed over centuries – George IV in particular employing the architect Jeffry Wyatt (soon to rename himself the sexier Wyattville) to make changes a Disney designer would blush at – extra crenellations, more oriel windows, and another 30 feet or more on the Norman round tower.

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Famous Windsor people:

Alfred Ernest Albert of Saxe-Coburg
Chesney Hawkes
Dick Sheppard
Ed Vaizey
Edward III
Geraldine McEwan
Henry VI
Louis Mountbatten
Peter Osgood
Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Donald Francis Tovey
Sydney Camm

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Brit Quote:
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. - A N Wilson
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On this day:
Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentenced - 1834, Argentine Forces land on South Georgia - 1982
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