Royal Progress day 10

Day 10 Windsor Windsor Castle is huge, it’s the largest inhabited castle in the world and the home to our present Queen though she wasn’t in today. We were lucky enough to see the semi State Apartments a series of rooms that the Queen will use privately for entertaining visitors. These rooms are not generally open and this is only the second time I have been in there. Richly decorated and rebuilt after the fire in 1992 and with great views over Windsor great park. Viewing these rooms made up for a slight disappointment that many of the Tudor portraits have been moved to special exhibition at the Queens Gallery in Buckingham palace. St Georges Chapel is where many of our Sovereigns are buried up to the present day. Henry VIII is here in a vault in the centre of the quire. There is only a plain black marble slab with brass lettering in the floor to mark the place here perhaps England’s greatest king lies alongside his favourite wife Jane Seymour. The chapel is a grand building with a high vaulted ceiling but in comparison with Kings College Cambridge is not as grand. We had a dinner in a great family run Greek restaurant in Windsor and walking around Windsor at night we realised that the Queen is now in residence as the Royal Standard is flyimng over the great Round tower.