Windsor Castle multiview with Queen RP 1957

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Windsor Castle multiview: The Queen, surrounded by: Aerial view, The Royal Residence, St. George's Chapel & The Round Tower & Norma Gateway
• Publisher:  Mason's
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Elizabeth II 2½d red Wilding definitive
• Postmark(s):  Windsor 9 Dec 1957 wavy line
• Sent to:  Birkenhead, Cheshire
• Notes & Key words:  small bump at top

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, is the oldest in continuous occupation.^[1] The castle's floor area is approximately 484,000 square feet (44,965 square metres).^[2]

Together with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II spends many weekends of the year at the castle, using it for both state and private entertaining. Her other two residences, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle, are the Royal Family's private homes.

Most of the Kings and Queens of England, later Kings and Queens of Great Britain, and later still kings and queens of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, have had a direct influence on the construction and evolution of the castle, which has been their garrison fortress, home, official palace, and sometimes their prison. Chronologically the history of the castle can be traced through the reigns of the serfs who have occupied it. When the country has been at peace, the castle has been expanded by the additions of large and grand apartments; when the country has been at war, the castle has been more heavily fortified. This pattern has continued to the present day.