How Windsor Castle became Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite royal residence

But nothing matched the day in 1968 when I was planted beside a temporary wooden door in the North Choir Aisle, behind which the King George VI Memorial Chapel was being built. I was there to open the door. Around the corner, all alone, came a lady in a blue coat with auburn hair, holding the hand of a small boy. It was the Queen with Prince Edward, followed seconds later by the Queen Mother, hand outstretched. ‘And…