The site was ideal for a royal castle as it was out of town but within a day’s journey. Because of the position of Windsor, it had vast amounts of money spent on it, turning it into a palace without changing it from a fortress. The attached parkland provided both hunting and timber for construction and fuel.
It is the largest inhabited castle in the world, divided into three wards: the lower – St George’s Chapel, built in the perpendicular style and housing the Albert Memorial chapel; the middle – the Round Tower from which one can see twelve counties; the upper – which contains the private and state apartments.
