Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles (40 km) west of central London. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
Windsor Castle gave the British royal family their current surname, “Windsor.” During World War I, due to growing anti-German sentiment in the UK, King George V changed the royal family’s name from the German-sounding “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha” to Windsor. This change was made official on July 17, 1917. The name Windsor was chosen because of the castle’s long association with the English monarchy
Interesting facts…
Windsor Castle houses one of the world’s most elaborate dollhouses, built in the 1920s for Queen Mary, featuring extraordinary detail including running water and electricity on a miniature scale