Windsor Castle opens terrace garden to the public

Take a day out and visit the beautiful East Terrace Garden this weekend

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by Emily Gilbert |
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If you've not got much planned this weekend, get yourself down to Windsor Castle's East Terrace Garden which will be open to the public this weekend for the first time in decades.

You'll be explore Windsor Castle's beautiful East Terrace Garden complete with manicured lawns, colourful flowerbeds and sculptured topiary.

The gardens were designed in the 1820s by George IV and were then dug up in the Second World War to grow produce.

The Queen and her sisters were given a small site to grow veg including tomatoes, sweetcorn and dwarf beans to help the war effort.

Richard Williams, Windsor Castle’s learning curator told the BBC: "It’s been a great favourite for members of the royal family for just coming up to 200 years which is when it was first laid out by George IV.”

“It also has a significance for Her Majesty the Queen, because during the war years the whole garden was dug up in order to grow vegetables, and the then young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret had their own individual plots to grow vegetables for the war effort.

“And I suppose the other significance for the Queen is that in 1971 it was the Duke of Edinburgh who effectively designed the garden as we see it today, with the flower beds and the beautiful fountain at the centre.”

From this weekend, you can visit the East Terrace Garden which is included with an admission to Windsor Castle on weekends in August and September, while the Queen is on holiday at Balmoral.

The Royal Collection Trust decided to include the gardens to the visitor route for a limited time so they could offer more outside space due to social distancing measures.

Book tickets here.

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