The Moat Garden Party, 10th July 2026
Join us for an elegant and magical evening at Windsor Castle’s enchanting Moat Garden.
When
Friday 10th July 2026.
Where
The Moat Garden, Windsor Castle.
Register your interest
Email katew@alexanderdevine.org to register interest.
About the Moat Garden
The Moat Garden is found in what remains of the moat that encircled the Round Tower, created when the Normans built the steep motte (or mound) with a keep on top.
The keep was rebuilt in stone in 1180 by Henry II and was known as the ‘Great Tower’. Over time, wild plants took hold within the Moat.
In 1319 five women were paid a penny a day to mow the nettles. By the end of the seventeenth century there is evidence the mound was being cultivated, and by the eighteenth century part of the moat was in use as a pleasure garden.
The Moat Garden as we know it today is largely the creation of General Sir Dighton Probyn, who was Keeper of the Privy Purse to King Edward VII and lived in Norman Tower from 1901 to 1922.
The garden continues to evolve under each occupant, and there have been new additions, such as the pond that occupies the south-western part of the moat, created in 1993.
Source: Royal Collection Trust, www.rct.uk
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