Nor was Windsor Castle the only grand British edifice to host green faith events recently.
The torch relay will set off from Nottingham Castle the following morning.
At Stirling Castle the salute was watched by some 2, 000 tourists.
The town began as a castle town, and while the buildings have remained the same, the castle and the village chapel have fallen to ruin in the intervening centuries.
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In the courtyard of Cape Coast Castle lies the tomb of Philip Quaque, the chaplain to the officers and men of the castle for 42 years in the second half of the 18th century.
When the temperature unexpectedly drops in the Bull and Castle (formerly the Castle Inn), it is believed to be the presence of poet James Clarence Mangan, who was born here in 1803.
The heavy rain left a section of the courtyard at Dudley Castle underwater, even though staff said the castle was one of the highest points in the region.
The heavy rain left a section of the courtyard at Dudley Castle under water, even though staff said the castle was one of the highest points in the region.
"This year has been another eventful period in the castle's history with the arrival of the Olympic torch and the spectacular lighting of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee beacon against the dramatic backdrop of the castle, " he said.
The manuscripts were copied in the 1630s, and remained undiscovered at the castle until the 1960s.
The most obvious route is to take on the castle through the Mainstreet.
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Volunteers and the owners of the castle, the Cawdor family, cleared weeds and other vegetation from around Rait in 2010.
Due to present-day conditions in the castle, the actual exhibits cannot be displayed but photos of them all have been taken.
The castle was the residence of the Bishop of Worcester until 2007.
Go through Fantasyland and attack the castle in the rear.
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The magic of Beauty and the Beast, which is one of my favorite Disney animated films, comes to life the moment you step into the castle of the Be My Guest restaurant.
On the island of Kos, there are the mighty towers of the Castle of the Knights of St John, the medieval order of holy crusaders who went to Jerusalem but never returned home.
Part of this went towards the transformation of the Great Tower and some of it enabled improvements to the sea front as well as the planning of the cable car which will connect the front with the castle on the top of the cliff to the east of the town.
Each year it grew higher, and finally it surrounded the entire castle and grew so thickly beyond it that not a trace of the castle was to be seen, not even the flag on the roof.
Although Windsor is charming, the medieval castle is the main draw.
Initial fundraising allowed the trust to buy the castle in December 2008, and it began planning how to develop the existing museum and the castle.
In 1934, 134 people lost their lives in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast.
The owners of Pentillie Castle believe the body of Sir James Tillie is entombed beneath his favourite place on the estate.
First opened as a museum in 1997, the castle initially displayed the van der Grinten collection in a cluttered manner recalling the brothers' own home.
Next up was Komugi Mountain, atop which, Miyamoto had told me, I would find the ruins of Sonobe Castle, the epicenter of his childhood explorations.
The castle was already the mythical birthplace of the legendary king.
The commission was succeeded by the business-led Castle Working Group, which used the commission's findings and further research to shape ideas for the redevelopment of the castle.
The castle website claims the building was commissioned by Henry VIII in about 1540 to defend the Spithead, Southampton Water and the Solent from the invasion by the Spanish Armada.
The embroidered balcony of the bodice, the castle keep of the skirts, the pas de trois of glove, shoe and hat here was a rustling theater of the self, a light-show of articulate materialism.
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