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samedi 11 novembre 2017

Le château de Windsor. Windsor Castle.


 Le château de Windsor, forteresse médiévale située à 40 kilomètres à l'ouest de Londres est la résidence la plus connue de la famille royale britannique. Sa construction commença peu après la conquête de l'Angleterre par Guillaume le Conquérant (William the Conqueror en anglais). Un grand merci à Derek pour cet envoi de deux timbres issus d'une série de 6 émise le 15 février 2017.

Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is notable for its long association with the English and later British royal family and for its architecture. The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I, it has been used by the reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish early 19th-century State Apartments were described by the art historian Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste". Inside the castle walls is the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by the historian John Martin Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic" design.







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