{"id":70888,"date":"2017-11-03T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-windsor-eton-berkshire-a-metaphor-for-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:03:42","slug":"lets-move-to-windsor-eton-berkshire-a-metaphor-for-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-windsor-eton-berkshire-a-metaphor-for-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Windsor & Eton, Berkshire: \u2018A metaphor for the nation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEven the millionaires lining the Thames and the 1% at Eton know their place beneath the royals at the castleWhat\u2019s going for it? At Let\u2019s move to… we like to press our faces up against the window, peer into the sweet shop and see \u2019ow the ovver \u2019arf lives. It\u2019s a\u00a0strange 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\u2019re halfway there. Royalty dominated even before William the Conqueror\u2019s 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\u2019s Royal Standard flapping highest of all makes sure even they know their place in the pecking order. Membership Event: Guardian Weekend Live Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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