WINDSOR CASTLE.—The magnificent Royal residence on a knoll ‘overlooking the Thames at Windsor is a sight familiar to Britons and visitors to Britain. Naturally, the interior is not so widely known, though when the Court is not in residence the State Apartments are open to the public. Opportunity for a comprehensive tour of the castle and St. George’s Chapel, burial place of English Sovereigns, is provided in “Windsor Castle,” by Sir Owen Morshead, published by the Phaidon Press. Sir Owen Morshead, the Queen’s librarian, has written a scholarly and most readable account of the castle and its history jsince the Conqueror established it as one of a ring of fortresses around London. The pictures (selected from 80 in the book) show, TOP LEFT, a fireplace in the Grand Reception Room; TOP RIGHT, a section of the Crimson Drawing Room; BOTTOM LEFT, the Grand Corridor, designed for George IV by Sir Jeffry Wyatville to link the private apartments which lie behind the wall on the right—only a half of its length is shown; BOTTOM RIGHT, some of Holbein’s portraits in the Picture Gallery. The familiar top picture is of Henry VIII, who instructed that “when the most high God called him out of this World, he would have his Corps interred at Wyndesor, and no where else.”

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 3

WINDSOR CASTLE.—The magnificent Royal residence on a knoll ‘overlooking the Thames at Windsor is a sight familiar to Britons and visitors to Britain. Naturally, the interior is not so widely known, though when the Court is not in residence the State Apartments are open to the public. Opportunity for a comprehensive tour of the castle and St. George’s Chapel, burial place of English Sovereigns, is provided in “Windsor Castle,” by Sir Owen Morshead, published by the Phaidon Press. Sir Owen Morshead, the Queen’s librarian, has written a scholarly and most readable account of the castle and its history jsince the Conqueror established it as one of a ring of fortresses around London. The pictures (selected from 80 in the book) show, TOP LEFT, a fireplace in the Grand Reception Room; TOP RIGHT, a section of the Crimson Drawing Room; BOTTOM LEFT, the Grand Corridor, designed for George IV by Sir Jeffry Wyatville to link the private apartments which lie behind the wall on the right—only a half of its length is shown; BOTTOM RIGHT, some of Holbein’s portraits in the Picture Gallery. The familiar top picture is of Henry VIII, who instructed that “when the most high God called him out of this World, he would have his Corps interred at Wyndesor, and no where else.”