The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-12-12
Windsor Castle
The Ancestral Home Of English Kings Noted
for Its Beauty and Early History.
By c. J. Ryan, in Thsosophical Path.

J. in 7hsoophioal
Windsor Castle the ancestral of English kings
only interesting from historical associations
naturally but from wonderful
Thames meadowand the
gimpses from the old-fashioned
royal borough
position the Thames valley for miles The general
antique. but the of the buildings have been
entirely rebuilt modern times The dominating
feature until about
hynne feet by Wyvle under direction of
George III.
The Saxon kings by of
simple palaces there; the Romans had settlement
there as we remains; till William
the Conquero upon pleasant
hunting also work placed
fortress the summit of the kill and also
warfare the de-
light of his ie
To Edward William Wykeham, builder.
plan of the castle today The Round Tower
Edward III the meeting of the u
remarkable English Orders of Cvaly the noble
Garter (some Guarde Guarber Warders
King Arthur held his of the Round
Hill and said be certain that the medieval
historian did the legend. historian
The Tower was built entirely in ten months
in the eighteenth Of Edward III. 1t
in great haste by the special
mand of the King, receive the Round Ia
BILE for the order of Knights of the Gar
ter, just established. The building
by roof of tiles; part the
arcade of the gallery remains and nearly the
whole of the roof with the fine holdings of
fourteenth century The Knights
on side only with their backs the
WALL The King and his dned with
them all on the level without high
table"
Though Round has very fighting
for having been captured Henry Nv
of He accomplished
poet his we'll The Kings Quha before
Another Scottish king David held W1nsdor
by Edward ILL., but ranomed for the 100000 marks
France reached
allowed hunt and take his diversion the forest Being unable
demanded France Loyalty
to fulfill his obligation and die England 1868.
The perfect and striking relic of medieval architecture
standing ST. Georges Chapel glorious Perpendicular
Gothic 5000 worthy which it
hall Ruskn very piece
the great
illuminate the noble proportions of the The
windows contain English Sovereign beginning
Ill., and the vaung of
relieved by its bright coors the Of the Knights the Carter
very and beautiful.
Georges Chapel has been the events
chiefly weddings the
Garter Perhaps the pathetic burial silence
of the body the King Charles 164
the funeral which Queen
in 1901.
always of the Order
of the Garter AMI the cemona held
orally with that relic
There still doubt the the
Order Hon SOFT NAL pnse the generally given the
Countess Salisbury and Edward III by many to
blind conceang deeper which perhaps would
discovered by meaisc world has suggested that Rich
ard brought meaning the words has
literature available this rather those
who find profitable Haam the
historian the Order of the England was
the of that which
bty of the Christian world when chivalry zenith and
all the which adorned the knghy were
conspicuous Edward III and the Black Prince"
Windsor Art and the ROYAL
Library Rubens Vandyck, Holbein strength and
there examples OF other painting
Library contains matchess collection of drawings bv the old masters
especially Leonardo da Vnc Michael Angelo Raphael Hobn