It used to be her weekend residence, spent the Easter holidays, and traditionally stayed there before the summer before leaving for Balmoral, Scotland.
However, Sandringham in County Norfolk was dedicated to Christmas and New Year’s Eve. And the main address of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. was the impressive Buckingham Palace from the beginning of her reign. With a lavish 775-room mansion in central London, the Queen is connected for life.
That is changing now. In recent years, Windsor Castle has become the Queen’s permanent address. The queen, who will celebrate her ninety-sixth birthday in a month, has made Windsor her permanent seat in recent years, she has grown accustomed to living here, and she no longer intends to change that.
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Windsor is therefore the official main queen of the residence, as confirmed by royal correspondents for The Times.
It was here, the magnificent castle in Berkshire, founded in the eleventh century by William the Conqueror himself, who traveled in the last days of March 2020 before her Easter. she struck with full force.
After all, in the spring of 2020, both the queen’s son, Prince Charles in his seventies, and her grandson, Prince William, fell ill with covid-19. At a time when vaccination was not yet available, a new unknown disease was too high a risk for the then ninety-four-year-old queen.
The queen has been in Windsor for two years. She celebrates the holidays here, Christmas, she has isolated herself from the outside world, she and her husband have spent the last year of his life nearby – and it was here in Windsor that the queen buried her husband, 90-year-old Prince Philip, last year.
From there, she broadcast her speeches to the nation and the world, where she organized online audiences through platforms such as Skype or Zoom. Windsor also loves the queen thanks to its exceptionally successful reconstruction in the nineteenth century, which made the once inhospitable castle one of the queen’s most comfortable residences.
A number of weddings of members of the closest royal family took place in the local chapel of St. George from the fifteenth century. Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, the Queen’s granddaughter Princess Eugenie, and the nearby Windsor Guildhall, Prince Charles also celebrated his second, civil marriage, when he married the Duchess of Camilla in 2005.
The royal children and Elizabeth II are also regularly baptized in Windsor. has many pleasant memories associated with this place. And even though the queen herself suffered from covid-19 last month – fortunately with only mild symptoms of a cold thanks to three doses of vaccination – she is working hard again in Windsor.
On Monday, March 7, she personally received Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This was the Queen’s first personal audience since her illness with the covid. Trudeau also arrived in the UK for official talks with Boris Johnson and other political leaders over the war in Ukraine.
The monarch again symbolically paid tribute to the invaded country on Monday – after it was revealed last week that she had supported a humanitarian fundraiser in support of refugees from Ukraine with a generous gift, she had the reception hall of Windsor Castle decorated with flowers in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
From the Queen, known for her emphasis on the traditional symbolism of chosen colors and flowers, this is a clear gesture of support and participation with a war-torn country.
Justin Trudeau, the 23rd Canadian Prime Minister, has been in office since 2015 and has a close personal friendship with the Queen, who is also the Queen of Canada. It is well known that the Queen enjoys meeting the Prime Minister of Canada.
“Thank you to the Prime Minister of Canada for feeling so old again,” Elizabeth II joked. seven years ago during a banquet toast on the occasion of the meeting of the Heads of Government of all the Commonwealth Member States in Malta.
The queen also found that she knew 50-year-old Justin Trudeau as a small child – even as a newborn. His father Pierre was also the Queen’s Prime Minister of Canada (in office since 1968 and throughout the 1970s), and with him and his young family Elizabeth II. of course she met repeatedly.
She even sent a personal greeting card to Pierre Trudeau in 1971 for her firstborn son Justin. So on Monday, the Queen and her Canadian prime minister, half a century younger, meet again in time – and it happened again in Windsor.
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