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Arundel castle was founded by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1067 and he became the very first person to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror. The castle was built and then later damaged during the time of the English civil war, they managed to restore it to its former glory in the 18th and 19th centuries. This is a big reason why people get holiday cottage Sussex in this area.

The castle was first built in 1086 and was built as major fortification for the mouth of the River Arun. Once Roger died the property went to the hands of the King of the time, Henry I.

During the medieval time period it would seem that mostly it was just handed down to various people and the place saw a lot of owners during these years. The crown seized the castle once again after it was found that Thomas Howard was conspiring to marry the Queen Of Scots (Mary) but it was later given back to the Earls.

The Howard family then kept the castle but did nothing to it as they had wanted to resore other buildings until the castle came into the hands of Charles Howard. In 1787 he started work on the castle and this continued for many years, once complete he had a massive party inside the walls and died shortly afterwards.

The Monarch Queen Victoria herself has actually stayed in the castle and apparently really enjoyed the experience, more work was done before and after her stay and this is how you see the castle today, many of her things are still there.

The great thing about the castle is that most of it is open to the public so make sure that if you can you can take a break from that web design job in that serviced offices Soho office and get out there to pay it a visit!