Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, May 1905Various
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Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, May 1905
Various
Agriculture -- Southern States -- Periodicals; Southern States -- Periodicals
There are many tiny chapels around the various walls, in the fashion of
the churches of Europe. We noticed, especially, the Braye chapel to the
right of the entrance. On the walls hung a sword and swordbelt, showing
evident marks of service in the field. An inscription explained that they
belonged to Captain Wyatt-Edgall, who recovered the body of the Prince
Imperial, in Zululand. He, himself, was also killed in South Africa. The
same chapel contains the monument to Prince Imperial—son of Napoleon III
and Eugènie,—who fought with the English in South Africa, and there died.
A translation of the inscription at the foot of the marble figure—a
figure of the recumbent prince, grasping his sword which lies along his
body—reads: “The well-beloved youth, the comrade of our soldiers, slain
in the African war, and thence carried to the tomb of his fathers, and
represented in funereal marble in this holy domicile of kings, Queen
Victoria receiveth as her guest.”
There is also an interesting extract from the will of the prince, which
reads: “I shall die with a feeling of profound gratitude for her Majesty,
the Queen of England, and for the royal family, and for the country in
which, during eight years, I have received so cordial a hospitality.”
The choir, a church within the church, is situated in the center of the
chapel and at the east end. A passage runs the entire way round the sides
and rear. It is raised some four feet above the level of the floor and
is a long gallery with two rows of lateral seats, and an organ, said to
be the finest choir organ in Europe, at the farthest end. The seats,
on either side, are the stalls of the Knights of the Garter. They are
most elaborately carved from floor to ceiling, decorated with crests and
emblems.
The remains of Henry VIII and Lady Jane Seymour, who was neither divorced
nor beheaded, since she lived only a year after her marriage, are buried
beneath the center of the choir. Under the entire chapel a royal vault
was constructed by George III, cut out of the chalk rocks below. It is
seventy by twenty by fifteen feet and designed for eighty-one bodies.
[Illustration:
THE ROUND TOWER, WINDSOR CASTLE.
]
Directly in the rear of St. George’s is Albert Memorial Chapel, the most
interesting feature, as well as the most artistic and costly creation at
Windsor. The chapel was begun by the pious, though much married, Henry
VIII, who soon abandoned it for Westminster. Constancy was, perhaps, not
one of Henry’s strong points. Wolsey, who was Henry’s pope and aspired
to be the real one, begged and obtained the chapel for himself, but
fell from Henry’s favor, as the ladies had done, before he could finish
it. When the Parliamentary forces obtained possession of Windsor, they
desecrated it as usual, and sold its plunder for $3,000. Wolsey’s
sarcophagus, which escaped, was removed by George III, three hundred
years later, to St. Paul’s, where it now holds the dust of Nelson.
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