It will be disconcerting for Donald Trump to enter a castle that isn’t called Trump, let alone gain entry to Windsor Castle, where he is due to be invited.
What innocent hilarity Brits will enjoy in comparing Trump’s sploshous New York penthouse home in Trump Tower with Windsor Castle, if only because they both feature a lot of gold. And marble and general curly-wurliness, with every surface slathered with decoration.
There the resemblance ends. Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and the longest-inhabited palace in Europe — because it’s really a palace inside a castle — began in the 11th century as a Norman castle, which was then rebuilt internally, enlarged, aggrandised and theatricalised over the following 900 years.
It’s an extraordinary,