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Garden designed by King to open to castle visitors

News imageRoyal Collection Trust A bird's eye view of the Venus Garden, with Windsor Castle at the top-right of the picture.Royal Collection Trust
Entrance to the garden will be part of a standard ticket to the castle until 13 September

A Windsor Castle garden renamed and redesigned to King Charles III's plans will open to the public for the first time later.

Entrance to the Venus Garden, formerly known as the East Terrace Garden, will be included as part of a standard visit to the castle until 13 September.

The garden was first laid out in the 1820s on the site of King Charles II's bowling green and has been reshaped by successive generations of the Royal Family.

It has intermittently been open to the public, mostly recently over weekends in the summers of 2020 and 2021.

A video by the Royal Collection Trust shows some of the work that went on to redesign the garden (this video has no sound)

Planning permission was granted to move a sculpture of Hercules and writhing serpent Achelous into the garden after it was removed from Kew Gardens in the autumn.

It had stood there 1963, having been bought by George IV in 1829 and first installed in the Windsor Castle garden in 1909.

News imageRoyal Collection Trust A general view picture of the garden and castle.Royal Collection Trust
The then East Terrace Garden was open to the public over the summers of 2020 and 2021
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