Driving along the Windsor Road one day, my eye was caught by a collection of chairs, placed in an oblong, close to where the Runnymede memorial is located. Ah, I thought, that’s where King John sat with his Barons and signed Magna Carta. But no, dear reader, I was wrong. It is in fact an…
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Sir Christopher Wren – the joker
My brief introduction to Windsor was delivered by the statement, “you know the story behind these pillars in our Guildhall, don’t you?”. The answer was no actually and an intriguing tale was then related. Windsor’s historic Guildhall, in the shadow of the Castle, was where HRH Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowlers were married in…