Oxford Trip 2004 VII: Windsor Castle

Today we traveled to Windsor Castle to visit the home of the Royal Family.
As the Sex Pistols said, “God Save the Queen …”

I really enjoyed Windsor. It was very much worth the entrance fee. I was able to see the armor of Henry the VIII and even his burial place. He is also buried with his favorite wife and Charles I, including his head.



Here we are walking up toward the castle. I imagine the rent is quite high on that place.



A little bit closer.



Here you can see that they are working on the castle. You might remember that Windsor Castle caught on fire a few years ago. The fire damage has been fixed and looks quite nice now.

A tour guide told us that while the fire was raging, Prince Phillip was yelling, “The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!”



Design at Gates to Windsor Castle.



Don’t you wish you had a garden like this?



This piece goes with the one below.



It was the only way I could get the whole lot in.



What I wouldn’t give to know what he is thinking. Probably something along the lines of “We don’t need no water …”





Here I catch the end of the Windsor band. They do a mean version of Ted Nugent’s “Stranglehold,”



This one is good. You can see the Japanese tourists taking pictures in the background and the SWBTS students planning how to make the guard laugh in the foreground.



It worked! And it appears that when they are about to laugh they must start marching to recover themselves.

We talked to one off-duty guard. He had just returned from Iraq.



And here is the statue of Queen Victoria. The symbol of what it means to be British. Her father is German, her husband is German, and she’s half German.



And, lastly, here is the picture I took of the Queen and Prince.

For me, the best part of the tour was St. George’s Chapel. Unfortunately, photography is not allowed inside the chapel or the castle. Oh, well.