Windsor Castle

It was a pleasure to visit Windsor Castle. Its building history is so horribly complicated. Norman in origin, Queen Elizabeth apparently added the Long Gallery, which was later converted by Jeffry Wyatville into the King’s Library (a perfect Tudor fireplace survives, as well as a Rysbrack bust of Elizabeth which came from Queen Caroline’s library, now lost, designed by William Kent at St. James’s Palace). Then, Hugh May added the State Apartments, with ceiling paintings by Verrio, only for it all to be redone by Wyatville under George IV:-

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