Windsor Castle in the History of England

260 Pages·1974·54.66 MB·English

by  A. L. Rowse

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A.L.ROWSE
WINDSOR
CASTLE
THE OF
IN HISTORY
ENGLAND
PUTNAM'S SONS
G. P.
New York
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PrintedinEngland
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To
Ambassador Walter Armenher^
in recognition of
his niauy benefactions to Britain
Acknowledgements
Photographs and illustrations were supplied or are reproduced by kind permission of
thefollowing.Thepicturesonpages i, 82/3, 110/ji, 155, 158, 172, 174, 177, 182/3, 184,
188, igj, 194I5, 196, 213, 224, 227, arereproducedbygraciouspermissionofH.M. the
Queen; on page 50 by courtesy ofthe Duke ofNorfolk, Arundel Castle; on pages 30
and 31 by courtesy ofthe Dean and Chapter ofCanterbury Cathedral (photoJohn
Freeman); on pages 32/3 by kind permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton
College, Windsor; on pages loi, 121, by kind permission ofthe Warden and Fellows
of All Souls College, Oxford; on page 151 by kind permission of Commander
CampbellJohnston. Aerofilms Ltd: 10/11 ;J. Allen Cash: 98, 199; Bodleian Library:
17; British Museum: 14, 21, j6 (photoJohn Freeman), 42, 49, 70, 112 (above), 128/9,
156/7, 166, 191, 22g, 2joli; A. F. Kersting: 8, 15, 34, 37, 223, 2j2 (above); National
Gallery, London: 148/9; National Portrait Gallery: 72, 124, 132, 135, 142, 163, 200,
219; Phoebus Picture Library: 36, 102/3, ^^9i Radio Times Hulton Picture Library:
26/7, 96/7, 107, 118/19, 169, 210/11, 216/17, 236, 240, 242/3, 246, 248; RoyalAcademy
ofArt: 206; Victoria and Albert Museum: 77, 112 (below); William Gordon Davis:
181; from Windsor Castle by W. H. St.John Hope: 65; Woodmansterne Ltd (photo
Nicholas Servian): 18, 35.
Numbers in italic indicate colour illustrations.
Picture research by Philippa Lewis and Annette Brown.
Contents
Medieval Power and Chivalry
1 9
2 Tudor Historic Decisions 43
3 Stuart Crises and Amenities 73
4 The Revolution and Queen Anne 1 13
5 Hanoverian Neglect; Georgian Domesticity 143
6 George iv and Wyatville 175
7 The Victorian Age 207
8 Edwardian and Georgian Epilogue 242
Index 250
Henry viii's Gateway at Windsor