Windsor Castle's significance to Queen Elizabeth II is explored following her death aged 96.
The first instinct of many mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II was to leave flowers at Windsor Castle. It was a building that had deep significance to the monarch throughout her life - a place of work but also her own private retreat.The then-Princess Elizabeth and her family made Royal Lodge - a mansion in the grounds of the Windsor Estate - their weekend country home.
It was at this historic location and at that tender age that she spoke to her fellow young evacuees, urging them in a radio broadcast to find courage in the face of uncertain and troubling times.And just like those who had gone before her, the young Princess Elizabeth soon found it to be the setting both for undertaking some of her most challenging royal duties, as well as the place she enjoyed calling home.
Weeks later, during a speech marking her Ruby Jubilee, she told her audience that 1992 was "not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure".
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