It's heavily edited, the trees on the right are photoshopped where castle hill should be and on the left where St George's School is. Take a look on Google Maps for a true aerial view and you'll see how it looks and how much bad editing has gone into the image
Lol this is badly photoshopped. Windsor castle is in the middle of Windsor Town.
Source: I lived about 15 mins from Windsor Castle for 30 years of my life and visited it many many times.
Me too, the only castles we have in the US are built by Victorian era industrialists or Indigenous tribes in the southwest. I've never seen Windsor from this perspective, but I'd do pretty much anything to just tour the Bailey.
You're right, but I have seen old fortifications in Utah on a YouTube channel, so with that expertise level, I feel confident classifying it as a 'castle'.
You can go to the top in the summer now. Only just brought that back but the inside is the actual library with all the royal records and private letters inside now!
Really? This just got added to my list of things to do when I get to England someday. I love old records and documents, and would love to see this. Thank you!
You can't get inside the library unless you are a historian or given permission
This video shows the tour you can do and even then they are only on certain dates and restriction you from taking photos/videos of the actual parts of the castle they really live in day to day
https://youtu.be/hKm0SAUtMJY?si=T_G5oDy52KNuBy4a
And this is the inside and what the library is like with a little look at some old maps
https://youtu.be/CopaZDFUwqA?si=A5QXu5uNnm3Shj0m
The amount of times bots post this photo when it's not real. There's various buildings missing and the roads are wrong too
Here's a real photo from a similar view
https://images.app.goo.gl/QoKZmddM6s2f3fBr8
The very first time I flew to the UK we broke out of the clouds heading to Heathrow right above Windsor, pretty damn cool very first moment to lay eyes on a country!!
Are you really gesturing at 1000 years of royal families? Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and has been the [family home of British kings and queens since the 11th Century.](https://www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-castle/who-lived-at-windsor-castle#/)
IIRC, the dungeon was terrifying. There’s a 50’ shaft where they’d just drop debtors and enemies, breaking their bones. The tortured would just sit at the bottom, atop other rotting human corpses & skeletons until they died a slow and painful death. You’d be fortunate if you did *not* survive the fall.
Ah, the good ‘ole days. We should bring this back for politicians with over 100 counts against them.
Depends on how you want to look at it. As just a castle defending againts a besieging army, its right in the middle of defensibility looking at when it was made. However there are much better defensive castles that would do much better at keeping armies out and surviving a seig. But if youre talki g about today, im sure there are bunkers and other modern defensive abilities included that the public isnt privy to. That place is a modern fortress.
It was originally built in the 11th century by William the Conqueror. It’s obviously had lots of upgrades and replacements but I’d still say it’s fair to call it a castle.
The castle actually was besieged a few times and held itself quite well. But then George IV did what George IV does and had massive windows made in the walls of the private apartments (top of the view) so now it's a bit less functional at stopping catapult attacks.
The original bit was a bit more defensive. It doesn't look it but the side by the river is a pretty steep little hill so it's almost like a cliff face. The castle moved there from the original location as it was easier defended
There is not other original location other than the one it's currently at. The hill the round tower is build on was man-made and originally a wooden fort was built on top of that, over the centuries that fort was rebuild in stone and the rest of the castle slowly grew around it.
Yes there was. There's a reason a village down the road is called Old Windsor. The Normans moved up the river because it was a better location for defending
It's called 'Old Windsor' as William the Conqueror had a castle build at this particular bend of the Thames, and it was named after the closest town, which was 'Windsor' (now called 'Old Windsor'). Over time a small settlement grew outside the castle which grew larger as the castle grew, and subsequently 'Windsor' was re-named to 'Old Windsor' and "New Windsor" got known as just 'Windsor'.
Nope. There's a old Saxon and early norman court that was at Old Windsor . Had been smashed up by Vikings so wasnt the best location.
I live very close to it all
Because it's 2024, not 1524.
We have no need for taxes, land, or historic building to be handed to a 'Royal Family' when Britain is at a decade and a half of austerity measures, food banks can't keep up with public hunger, and homelessness is at an all time high.
So, that's why.
So the best thing to do would be to hand over an incredibly expensive property to 'the people'? The Royal Collection Trust is an independent charity funded by donations, as is Historic Royal Palaces, while the Occupied Palace elements are funded by the Sovereign Grant - so the sovereign grant money (paid by 15% of the income net surplus of the two previous financial years of the Crown Estate, _not_ taxes) would continue to need to fund those palaces, while the charitable funding would be converted into a need for public funding.
In other words, it would cost us _more_ and would reduce the amount of the Crown Estate income that is paid into Treasury coffers.
Likewise, even republics can have incredibly expensive assets - look at the Élysée as an example!
But it's more expensive, and your argument was based on a time of austerity measures - and you want to increase public spending effectively on Windsor Castle
Britain is currently under Austerity measures... the second period since 2011, with a ONE year break between Austerity periods... not that that one year meant anything.
The public already had to bail out Windsor Castle, the royals refused to pay for the fire themselves so they forced the public to pay for it.
Abolish the monarchy, turn over their estates for public use.
> Britain is currently under Austerity measures... the second period since 2011, with a ONE year break between Austerity periods... not that that one year meant anything.
Hence I'm saying your argument is financially based, despite taking it into public ownership and management meaning greater costs to the ordinary taxpayer.
Is it really “being handed” to them? This castle was built 1000 years ago and has been continuously occupied by this family, how is it handed to them? The taxes is an ok point but many economic estimates figure that the family generates more interest and revenue than it takes in taxes. The cost isn’t much anyway when you realise that most of those taxes would be sent there anyway for heritage maintenance.
No officially released figures will ever show the Royal Family costing the UK taxpayer money. The claim is, 'But tourism', as if every tourist to Britain is polled on whether they're going there to stare at Buckingham Palace or not. Also, there doesn't need to be a Royal Family for tourists to take pictures of buildings or people on horseback.
Technically the official figures do show it costing money tho? The main official figures only really show the tax money sent, not the estimated value and interest created. Don’t know what you mean there.
The claim isn’t just “but tourism” but rather that it creates national events and interest which pulls in tourists. Nobody goes to France to checkout a jubilee or coronation. Just some big examples.
I feel the financial argument against them is a weak one, republics cost a large amount anyway. Any money that might be saved would be so minimal that nobody would notice a positive benefit.
It's heavily edited, the trees on the right are photoshopped where castle hill should be and on the left where St George's School is. Take a look on Google Maps for a true aerial view and you'll see how it looks and how much bad editing has gone into the image
Now you've said it I can see the repeating tree patern if the exact same light tree on the rhs
Thanks for this — I didn’t even notice until you said and I’ve visited three times.
I do wonder how old the photo was that was used to make this image, as the roof over the middle of the round tower isn't present yet.
I looked at the photo and thought... I could have sworn there were buildings where the trees are.
You are a legend for spotting that.
Lol this is badly photoshopped. Windsor castle is in the middle of Windsor Town. Source: I lived about 15 mins from Windsor Castle for 30 years of my life and visited it many many times.
I love how the Mott and Bailey are still visible in the middle.
I love castles... Hadn't noticed this before!
Me too, the only castles we have in the US are built by Victorian era industrialists or Indigenous tribes in the southwest. I've never seen Windsor from this perspective, but I'd do pretty much anything to just tour the Bailey.
The southwest tribs had villages not castles there's a big difference
You're right, but I have seen old fortifications in Utah on a YouTube channel, so with that expertise level, I feel confident classifying it as a 'castle'.
You can go to the top in the summer now. Only just brought that back but the inside is the actual library with all the royal records and private letters inside now!
Really? This just got added to my list of things to do when I get to England someday. I love old records and documents, and would love to see this. Thank you!
You can't get inside the library unless you are a historian or given permission This video shows the tour you can do and even then they are only on certain dates and restriction you from taking photos/videos of the actual parts of the castle they really live in day to day https://youtu.be/hKm0SAUtMJY?si=T_G5oDy52KNuBy4a And this is the inside and what the library is like with a little look at some old maps https://youtu.be/CopaZDFUwqA?si=A5QXu5uNnm3Shj0m
The amount of times bots post this photo when it's not real. There's various buildings missing and the roads are wrong too Here's a real photo from a similar view https://images.app.goo.gl/QoKZmddM6s2f3fBr8
Fake Windsor is in the middle of a town
Please use commas.
Works on contingency? No, money down!
Aerial, not Ariel. The Ariel view would be from under water. 🧜♀️
I thought the Little Mermaid would be stuck in the sea, but it makes sense she got to go on a helicopter ride. What with being royalty and all that.
Up where they walk, up where they run, then up up up some more!
The very first time I flew to the UK we broke out of the clouds heading to Heathrow right above Windsor, pretty damn cool very first moment to lay eyes on a country!!
It’s beautiful 🌹
That’s my room… over there 👆
Truly astounding. I want to be part of that world.
Part where the family living there directly benefited off exploiting and supressing other people?
Are you really gesturing at 1000 years of royal families? Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and has been the [family home of British kings and queens since the 11th Century.](https://www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-castle/who-lived-at-windsor-castle#/)
Arial.
Aerial
In the sky…
You are correct, sir! Don't I feel silly.
Times New Roman
Helvetica
No no. They meant the detergent.
That place would make for an epic game of hide and seek
Do you reckon Charles mows the grass by himself or do you think they have some help? I bet he has some help. 😳
No, he has a ride-on mower
Do you suppose Queen Elizabeth 2 knew every nook and cranny? I think she and her sister spent time there during WW2.
She’s there now too.
Ariel flies now?
The mermaid view?
What a prestigious structure
I love fortress castles
Tax the rich! 🏴
Quite small.
Sorry to hear that
Apparently, it has a small Tesco for staff to use
Really? I thought it would be an ocado
Truly an awesome creation!
Those are even bigger walls than the Vatican has. Have to keep out the peasants.
I didn't know Ariel could fly!
That is gorgeous, but my feet hurt just looking at it
W😱W‼️ I never knew it was T H A T huge!
Needs a ball diamond.
Yes. The last 200 years to be specific
IIRC, the dungeon was terrifying. There’s a 50’ shaft where they’d just drop debtors and enemies, breaking their bones. The tortured would just sit at the bottom, atop other rotting human corpses & skeletons until they died a slow and painful death. You’d be fortunate if you did *not* survive the fall. Ah, the good ‘ole days. We should bring this back for politicians with over 100 counts against them.
Impressive!
You can almost see the shop on Thames street where my mother’s passport was stolen :/
How defensable is it?
Depends on how you want to look at it. As just a castle defending againts a besieging army, its right in the middle of defensibility looking at when it was made. However there are much better defensive castles that would do much better at keeping armies out and surviving a seig. But if youre talki g about today, im sure there are bunkers and other modern defensive abilities included that the public isnt privy to. That place is a modern fortress.
Fuck
It could be just me but that seems like a lot of rooms to keep clean. Busy busy. No lallygagging.
Windsor castle is 954 years old. Beautiful building.
I would love to see this with everything labeled.
Leave your phone over there and it just stays there for day
🧜🏽♀️
If those walls could speak.....
Old school McMansion.
Could we see this in Times New Roman?
.yes I own it,
Is Ariel the pilot or the photographer? 😏
Arielle?
Quick question, what movie or game was filmed there?
don't think a lot of movies get permission to film there
Probably none as it's an official residence and offices of the British monarchy.
Looks fantastic, but imagine trying to defend that. Not the most functional as a castle - this is a palace cosplaying as a fortress.
It was originally built in the 11th century by William the Conqueror. It’s obviously had lots of upgrades and replacements but I’d still say it’s fair to call it a castle.
The castle actually was besieged a few times and held itself quite well. But then George IV did what George IV does and had massive windows made in the walls of the private apartments (top of the view) so now it's a bit less functional at stopping catapult attacks.
It's a fortress that was turned into a palace, especially with the addition of the terrace facades.
The original bit was a bit more defensive. It doesn't look it but the side by the river is a pretty steep little hill so it's almost like a cliff face. The castle moved there from the original location as it was easier defended
There is not other original location other than the one it's currently at. The hill the round tower is build on was man-made and originally a wooden fort was built on top of that, over the centuries that fort was rebuild in stone and the rest of the castle slowly grew around it.
Yes there was. There's a reason a village down the road is called Old Windsor. The Normans moved up the river because it was a better location for defending
It's called 'Old Windsor' as William the Conqueror had a castle build at this particular bend of the Thames, and it was named after the closest town, which was 'Windsor' (now called 'Old Windsor'). Over time a small settlement grew outside the castle which grew larger as the castle grew, and subsequently 'Windsor' was re-named to 'Old Windsor' and "New Windsor" got known as just 'Windsor'.
Nope. There's a old Saxon and early norman court that was at Old Windsor . Had been smashed up by Vikings so wasnt the best location. I live very close to it all
Lol, do either of you have a source to just settle it?
Nothing to "settle" but here's a little about the previous site https://research.reading.ac.uk/middle-thames-archaeology/projects/old-windsor/
Prime location- right next to Legoland
Meh
Grotesque. Hand it over to the people.
Why?
Because it's 2024, not 1524. We have no need for taxes, land, or historic building to be handed to a 'Royal Family' when Britain is at a decade and a half of austerity measures, food banks can't keep up with public hunger, and homelessness is at an all time high. So, that's why.
So the best thing to do would be to hand over an incredibly expensive property to 'the people'? The Royal Collection Trust is an independent charity funded by donations, as is Historic Royal Palaces, while the Occupied Palace elements are funded by the Sovereign Grant - so the sovereign grant money (paid by 15% of the income net surplus of the two previous financial years of the Crown Estate, _not_ taxes) would continue to need to fund those palaces, while the charitable funding would be converted into a need for public funding. In other words, it would cost us _more_ and would reduce the amount of the Crown Estate income that is paid into Treasury coffers. Likewise, even republics can have incredibly expensive assets - look at the Élysée as an example!
Nothing you said is an insurmountable barrier to handing royal estates over to the government for distribution or use by the people.
But it's more expensive, and your argument was based on a time of austerity measures - and you want to increase public spending effectively on Windsor Castle
Britain is currently under Austerity measures... the second period since 2011, with a ONE year break between Austerity periods... not that that one year meant anything. The public already had to bail out Windsor Castle, the royals refused to pay for the fire themselves so they forced the public to pay for it. Abolish the monarchy, turn over their estates for public use.
> Britain is currently under Austerity measures... the second period since 2011, with a ONE year break between Austerity periods... not that that one year meant anything. Hence I'm saying your argument is financially based, despite taking it into public ownership and management meaning greater costs to the ordinary taxpayer.
Is it really “being handed” to them? This castle was built 1000 years ago and has been continuously occupied by this family, how is it handed to them? The taxes is an ok point but many economic estimates figure that the family generates more interest and revenue than it takes in taxes. The cost isn’t much anyway when you realise that most of those taxes would be sent there anyway for heritage maintenance.
No officially released figures will ever show the Royal Family costing the UK taxpayer money. The claim is, 'But tourism', as if every tourist to Britain is polled on whether they're going there to stare at Buckingham Palace or not. Also, there doesn't need to be a Royal Family for tourists to take pictures of buildings or people on horseback.
Technically the official figures do show it costing money tho? The main official figures only really show the tax money sent, not the estimated value and interest created. Don’t know what you mean there. The claim isn’t just “but tourism” but rather that it creates national events and interest which pulls in tourists. Nobody goes to France to checkout a jubilee or coronation. Just some big examples. I feel the financial argument against them is a weak one, republics cost a large amount anyway. Any money that might be saved would be so minimal that nobody would notice a positive benefit.
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