when she’s home — usually on weekends). Dripping with chandeliers, finely furnished and strewn with history and the art of a long line of kings and queens, these royal rooms are the best I’ve seen in Britain.
You’ll view a grand vestibule decorated with exotic items seized by British troops as they colonized various corners of the world, plush rooms wallpapered with heroic
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Queen Elizabeth often resides at Windsor Castle, a home for British royalty for almost 1,000 years, 20 miles from London.
Langton House B&B is a homey Victorian house set in a quiet, treelined neighborhood (moderate,
For a luxurious stay near the...
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The ramparts of Windsor Castle loom over the town. The castle is open to the public when the queen isn’t there.