Windsor Castle is a royal residence at
Windsor in the English county of
Berkshire. The castle is notable for its long association with the
English and later
British royal family and also for its architecture. The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion by
William the Conqueror. Since the time of
Henry I, it has been used by succeeding monarchs and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish, early 19th-century State Apartments are architecturally significant, described by art historian
Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste". The castle includes the 15th-century
St George's Chapel, considered by historian
John Martin Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of
English Perpendicular Gothic" design. More than 500 people live and work in Windsor Castle.