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Windsor Castle is the ultimate monument to English tradition.

But it's also more than that.

It's a building that at different times in our history has stood as a symbol of momentous change.

Windsor is the oldest,and the largest inhabited castle in the world.

It's been home to the country's monarchs for almost 1,000 years.

And it certainly looks every inch an ancient medieval fortress.

But the fascinating thing with this castle is that not everything about it is as it seems.

From the outside,

the heavy stone battlements and looming towers make it a forbidding spectacle.

Yet what makes it so special is how a castle was transformed into a palace.

Because Windsor is the creation of different monarchs,

each with their own style and ambition.

The elegant rooms,the works of art,the grand and the intimate,the strange and the exotic.

During its long life,

Windsor has been many things - a home to medieval chivalry and romance,

a baroque palace to restore royal fortunes after a king lost his head,

and an architectural fantasy.