For all the portraits, busts and fine furniture, I have no doubt that it will be the personal stuff which lingers longest in the public's memory. As in any stately home, it is the tell-tale signs of family life — a wedding photo, perhaps, or even a trampoline in a ducal garden — which always catch the eye.And is, above all, a family retreat — as the first busload of tourists are about to find out when the King throws opens its doors to the paying public for the first time.This is arguably the most famous castle in the land, its place in history assured as the home where our longest-reigning monarch departed this life for the next (still doing her duty to the end). It has been reimagined in numerous dramas and films and has featured in many famous memoirs.
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