Property News · November 3, 2017

Let’s move to Windsor & Eton, Berkshire: ‘A metaphor for the nation’


Even the millionaires lining the Thames and the 1% at Eton know their place beneath the royals at the castleWhat’s going for it? At Let’s move to… we like to press our faces up against the window, peer into the sweet shop and see ’ow the ovver ’arf lives. It’s a strange kind of masochism. Windsor, Eton and, a few hundred metres away (divided from the others by the M4), Slough are today almost a geographical metaphor for the nation. The royalty (Windsor), the 1% (Eton) and the rest of us (where do you think?). The addition of Legoland in 1996 just tips the surrealism of this landscape over the edge: boys in tailcoats, changing of the guards, and Star Wars rendered 1:20 in tiny bricks. Think Ruritania, and you’re halfway there. Royalty dominated even before William the Conqueror’s motte and bailey; Old Windsor, downstream, was a favourite of Saxon kings. Now, 1,000 years later, millionaires (even the odd billionaire) line the Thames; though the castle’s Royal Standard flapping highest of all makes sure even they know their place in the pecking order. Membership Event: Guardian Weekend Live Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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