Important Events
- Marriage of the future Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun (1380)
- Visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1846)
- Used as Windsor Castle in the Doctor Who episode Silver Nemesis (1988), in The Madness of King George (1994), in Victoria & Albert (2001 TV serial), and in The Young Victoria (2008).
- Used as Carcroft Castle in the MacGyver television movie Trails to Doomsday.
- Opening of the Collector Earl's Garden 14 May 2008 by Prince Charles
- On October 14, 1651, Captain Morley, who held the Castle for Parliament, while out hunting, almost captured Charles II and Colonel Phillips. Charles II was on the run for his life at the time, fleeing from the Royalist defeat at Windsor. His party managed to just stay clear of Morley's party by dismounting as if to descend the hill more easily, thereby letting Morley's group run past them. (See Gounter, Last Act, p. 12.)
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