We join our Blue Badge guide in Windsor and step into Christmas and 1,000 years of royal history at Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. There will be time to buy refreshments beneath the castle walls before stepping inside the late Queen’s favourite residence. In St George’s Hall, the largest room in the Castle, a towering, 20-foot-high Nordmann fir tree grown in Windsor Great Park will be decked with thousands of sparkling lights and shimmering green and gold ornaments, while dramatic garlands will adorn the room’s balconies beneath the famous vaulted ceiling. In the Crimson Drawing Room, one of the ornate Semi-State Rooms only open during the winter months, the rich red silk walls and gilded details will provide a sumptuous backdrop for another dazzling, 16 foot-high tree. You will also visit St George’s Chapel which has been the scene of so many Royal family and ceremonial events and is also where you will see the resting place of HM Queen Elizabeth II along with another ten monarchs buried in the chapel. After lunch (not included) we board the coach for a look at the Royal landscape with views of the castle from the Long Walk.
