LEGENDS AND CHARMS OF WINDSOR CASTLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 23 (Supplement)

LEGENDS AND CHARMS OF WINDSOR CASTLE.

There are stories in Windsor Castle (writes Mr Lloyd Yates in the “Morning Post”) of the long procession; of Anne Bolevn sitting in a window; of

the body of Charles I. being carried through the snow; of Cromwell turning the chapel into a mess-room for his soldiers; of Herne the Hunter, and of Elizabeth shooting buck in the park. To-day is so real in Windsor now. especially when it is enriched with the life of the Court, that yesterday is a sort of vague dream. When the Court is at Windsor about two hundred people sleep within the castle walls, and behind the stiff, scar-let-coated sentries there is the life of a town, librarians, secretaries, stonemasons, and painters forever dispelling any tradition of lazy ease which might haVte grown up about Royal personages.

From the windows one may look otjt over the ground which is said to 1»c haunted by Herne the Hunter, or. walking around the other side of the castle, look down the magnificent J-ong Walk, with its three miles of gigantic trees on either side. It is only when one has seen the castles of other countries that one appreciates the splendour of this approach. down a drive so stately and wide, coming nearer and nearer to the castle, revealing it first as a pearly-grey mirage, above the gTeen trees. Nearer, it becomes grey and immense.