Gerald Farinas

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Edward spent £50,000—a staggering sum—on Windsor, with large new apartment suites, offices, and entertaining spaces. Today Windsor Castle still serves as the de facto home of English chivalry, particularly when it hosts gatherings of the Order of the Garter in its stunning Gothic chapel of Saint George (rebuilt in the late fifteenth century by Edward IV and Henry VII), or during its thrice-weekly changing of the guard—a public ceremony that normally attracts hundreds of curious spectators and tourists.
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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