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	Brussels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced [brʏsəl]; French: Bruxelles, pronounced [bʁysɛl] in Belgian French and often [bʁyksɛl] by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community and the main seat of the European Union's institutions.
		It was in the Palace complex at the Brussels' Coudenberg, that Charles V in 1555 abdicated.
		Research in the city's archives indicates that Dutch was by far the most widely used of the two as a vernacular and in its local administration, until the French occupation in 1793, even though French had been the language of the governors since the Burgundian era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brussels (2878 words)

	Royal Palace, Amsterdam
		The Royal Palace on the Dam, formerly the town hall, constitutes an impressive central point of Amsterdam.
		With the ending of Napoleonic rule the town hall reverted to the city which, however, because of its financial straits, was unable to use it for its original purpose and let it to King William I as a temporary residence.
		Royal Palace in Amsterdam which was built in 1648 on Dam Square was originally City Hall.
	www.planetware.com /amsterdam/royal-palace-nl-nh-konpal.htm (493 words)

	History
		The Royal Palace of Stockholm is the sovereign's official residence.
		The east façade of the Palace is decorated with colossal pilasters, the reason being that in the old days it was visible all the way from Ladugårdsgärde (the area surrounding the present-day Telegraph Tower).
		Now the Palace was built, not only as the principal residence of the Swedish royal family, but also as the nerve centre of Swedish government.
	www.royalcourt.se /theroyalpalaces/theroyalpalace/history.4.53abbbfd7ffdfa677fff25965.html (892 words)

	Monarchy of the Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first king of the constitutional monarchy of the Netherlands, William I, was a direct descendant of John the Elder, a younger brother of William of Orange (also known as William the Silent) who, from 1568 on, had led the Dutch in their eighty-year struggle for independence from Spain.
		Initial disappointment of many Dutch people because of her quick withdrawal to London faded when she proved to be of great moral support to the people and the resistance in her occupied country.
		Traditionally, Dutch monarchs have always been members of the Dutch Reformed Church although this was never constitutionally required.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_monarchy (1066 words)

	House of Orange Paleis Het Loo Garden, The Netherlands
		Built in the late 17th century in the forest of the Hoge Veluwe, the palace of Het Loo was inhabited by members of the House of Orange until 1975.
		In 1814 the palace became the property of the state and was used by members of the House of Orange until 1975.
		It is also fascinating to compare this restored garden with the restorations of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace, the subsequent English home of William and Mary.
	www.sisley.co.uk /hetloo.htm (347 words)

	Royal Palace Rugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A royal family typically includes the spouse of the reigning monarch, any or all surviving spouses of a deceased monarch, thechildren, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and cousins of the reigning monarch, as well as their spouses.
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center ofa kingdom.
		The original 'palaces' on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power, while the capitol on the Capitoline Hill was the seat of the senate andthe religious nucleus of Rome.
	www.witchware.com /File/32571-Royal.Palace.Rugs.Html (972 words)

	The Royal Forums - View Single Post - Royal Scandals Go Dutch
		Thu Feb 13,10:14 AM ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - An unusually open conflict in the Dutch royal house was tarnishing its image of family harmony Thursday, after an embittered princess went public with complaints she was targeted by a smear campaign intended to destroy her marriage.
		Under the Dutch constitution, the prime minister bears responsibility for the royal family and speaks on their behalf.
		In the article, the first of a series to run in coming weeks, Margarita claimed the royal house took such a disliking to her choice of partner that the couple have been socially isolated.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/3673-post2.html (452 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: History and Heritage: Places: Dutch House (Kew Palace)
		Historically significant for its association with the Royal family, the Dutch House (now known as Kew Palace) is the earliest surviving building in the Gardens.
		It was used intermittently as a royal residence between 1728 and 1898.
		The exterior of the palace was historically restored several years ago and the interior is has recently been extensively renovated.
	www.kew.org /heritage/places/dutchhouse.html (321 words)

	Hague, The - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Hague is the seat of the Dutch legislature, the Dutch supreme court, the International Court of Justice, and foreign embassies.
		The Peace Palace (Dutch Vredespaleis), which was financed by Andrew Carnegie and opened in 1913, houses the Permanent Court of Arbitration and, since 1945, the International Court of Justice.
		The Dutch royal residence from 1815 to 1948, the city was greatly expanded and beautified in the mid-19th cent.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Hague (550 words)

	The Dutch Royal House
		Amsterdam’s Royal Palace is in the heart of the city, on Dam Square.
		The palace was originally built as a city hall for the burgomaster and magistrates of Amsterdam, who awarded the project to the celebrated architect Jacob van Campen in 1648.
		The Royal Palace in Amsterdam is now used mainly for entertaining and official functions, such as state visits, the Queen’s New Year receptions and other official receptions.
	www.koninklijkhuis.nl /english/content.jsp?objectid=13411 (123 words)

	Royal Palace - Amsterdam Hotels
		Perfectly placed on Dam Square in the middle of the city, The Royal Palace of Amsterdam was initially constructed as a city hall for the magistrates of Amsterdam.
		The palace at the time of its inauguration, in 1655 was still unfinished and it took ten more years to complete the entire palace.
		The Royal Palace is situated in the centre of Amsterdam at Dam Square.
	www.hollandhotels.com /royalpalace.htm (1954 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Princess chides Dutch royal family
		The quarrel erupted when Queen Beatrix's niece, Princess Margarita, accused the royal household of trying to undermine her husband Edwin because he is a commoner.
		The princess has even raised the possibility of suing the House of Orange, as the royal family is known, because she alleges that it ran a smear campaign to thwart her husband's business ventures.
		The state and the palace are said to be considering legal action themselves over the princess's allegations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2826117.stm (277 words)

	CNN.com - Crowds cheer Dutch royal newlyweds - February 2, 2002
		The three-kilometre procession was led by 200 police and royal grenadiers on foot and on horseback, passing through hundreds of saluting soldiers and veterans.
		A man injured in the accident is claiming damages after his car was in collision with Maxima's in front of a royal palace outside The Hague.
		Dutch royals have married Germans and Russians but never fellow nationals over the past two centuries.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/02/02/holland.marriage (987 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Dutch Paintings at the Royal Collection
		Instead, the visitor to the Royal Collection, climbing those pleasing stairs from the entry hall, is presented with two rooms, one large and one small, lined with cerulean linen and hung with perhaps 50 paintings from the greatest age of Dutch painting.
		Dutch painters were good at what they did — generally much better, in most ways, than their British competitors.
		A love for Dutch art allowed British connoisseurs to take their places alongside the great French collectors of a vanished age (the Dutch influence is clear enough in the work of Watteau and Chardin) — men whose collections had been torn apart by the great enormity of 1789.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000293.php (2978 words)

	webindia123.com- monuments - palaces- Mattancherry Palace (Mattancheri Palace, Dutch Palace)
		The entrance to the Mattancherry Palace compound is through two arches which are typically Portuguese in character and a flight of steps through a portico on the south, gives access to a suite of public rooms on the upper level of the palace.
		Another important series of paintings in the Dutch Palace is found in the upper staircase rooms, notably that of the coronation hall that was made under Dutch patronage.
		Adjacent to the palace, almost within its grounds is the famous Cochin synagogue built in 1567 and between them stands a large circular temple with a cone roof which is not open to non- Hindus.
	www.webindia123.com /monuments/palaces/dutch.htm (863 words)

	Amsterdam Heritage - Royal Palace
		The construction of the Royal Palace was begun in 1648 and completed in 1665.
		The glory of the Dutch Republic in general and the city of Amsterdam in particular yielded the most important historic and cultural monument of 17th century Holland.
		Louis Napoleon’s modifications were reversed and the palace was restored to its original state of a government building based on classical models.
	www.bmz.amsterdam.nl /adam/uk/groot/paleis.html (994 words)

	CNN.com - Dutch mourn 'remarkable' prince - Oct. 7, 2002
		The Dutch public and their royal family are united in mourning the prince credited with helping mend the wartime wounds between his native Germany and The Netherlands.
		Claus' marriage to Beatrix was initially resisted by the Dutch public, upset over his service in the German army in World War II -- he served in the German 90th Panzer Division in Italy -- and his earlier membership in the Hitler Youth.
		Hundreds of mourners stood outside the Huis ten Bosch palace as a fl hearse bore the coffin to the royal couple's main residence.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/07/netherlands.prince (520 words)

	Dam Square - Royal Palace- Amsterdam, Netherlands - VirtualTourist.com
		This palace was built in the 17th century and was used as a town hall before it became the Royal Palace at the beginning of the 19th century.
		The palace was built in the 17th century and was used as a town hall.
		In the 19th century it became the Royal Palace and is the residence of the Queen while she is in Amsterdam.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Netherlands/Provincie_Noord_Holland/Amsterdam-463377/Things_To_Do-Amsterdam-Dam_Square_Royal_Palace-BR-1.html (1251 words)

	Worldandnation: A palace feud rocks Dutch royalty
		The affair has shocked the normally placid Dutch, who revere their queen as a wise if distant figure and think of their 200-year-old monarchy, the House of Orange, as something out of a fairy tale.
		In a statement, the flabbergasted royal family didn't answer each allegation but said it "couldn't recognize itself as portrayed" by Margarita, and quickly retreated again behind the palace walls.
		But her most provocative allegations were that the royal family launched a smear campaign that ruined de Roy van Zuydewijn's business, and that Beatrix had improperly used her office to have the secret services investigate him.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/03/09/Worldandnation/A_palace_feud_rocks_D.shtml (541 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: History and Heritage: Timeline: Kew Farm & the Dutch House (Kew Palace)
		This was the Dutch House, distinguished by the use of carved brickwork for all of its architectural decoration, most notably the superimposed tower of the Orders above the entrance.
		With its distinctive Flemish bond brickwork and rounded gables, the Dutch House is the oldest building remaining in the Gardens and is now known as Kew Palace.
		The ownership history of the plot east of the Dutch House, where the Herbarium now is, is not clear, but the 1730 map shows that by then, it was owned by the St Andrés, and was part of the Kew Park estate.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /heritage/timeline/16_17C_kewfarm.html (289 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Royal home to open after 10 years
		A royal palace that was once home to "mad" King George III is to open to the public after being shut for 10 years.
		The palace was a royal residence from 1728 to 1818, and in the early 19th Century was the home of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
		The second floor of the palace has never been seen before by the public, and has been hardly altered since it was decorated for the Georgian princesses in the early 19th Century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/london/4574240.stm (357 words)

	HELLO! Royalty
		Situated on the outskirts of the west coast city of The Hague - home of the Dutch government - 17th-century Huis ten Bosch Palace is the principal residence of the Dutch royal family.
		The palace remained the property of the Dutch royal family until the French invasion of 1795, when the family fled into exile and Huis ten Bosch passed into the hands of the State.
		Louis renovated the palace in flamboyant Empire style, and many of his pieces of furniture are still in use in the palace.
	www.hellomagazine.com /royalty/netherlands/palace.html (372 words)

	AmsterdamEscape.com >> Amsterdam Royal Palace
		The Royal Palace on Dam Square is the former city hall of Amsterdam
		The royal coat of arms is placed on a mantle of ermine surmounted by a crown.
		Expenditure on the Royal House is governed by or pursuant to the Royal House Finances Act.
	www.amsterdamescape.com /Museums/AmsterdamRoyalPalace.html (784 words)

	goDutch.com The Dutch Heritage Website:: News Article
		Seventeenth century Palace Het Loo is one of most notable landmarks of the Apeldoorn municipality, and its direct connection with the Royal family, the House of Orange.
		Much of the training for the Dutch armies could be held in the extensive woods and hilly landscape of the Veluwe, which by-and-large was private property of the monarch.
		The palace was expanded to its current opulence in the beginning of the 20th century, when Queen Wilhelmina and her family called it home.
	www.godutch.com /inserts/Friendship03/articles/p03a01.asp (1075 words)

	Royal Palace Noordeinde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Royal Palace 'Noordeinde' is one of many palaces in The Hague.
		It was build in 1533 and since 1584 it belongs to the Orange family (the Royal Family of the Netherlands).
		I took the pictures on the left from the Royal Gardens (which are open for public between sunrise and sunset) in November 1999.
	home-2.worldonline.nl /~aarde01/paleis.htm (191 words)

	Expatica's Dutch news in English: Dutch royal family mourns in private
		AMSTERDAM — The Dutch royal family is mourning the passing of Princess Juliana in strict privacy and a quiet atmosphere pervaded the visiting public at Soestdijk Palace on Sunday.
		And after seeing her mother die at 5.50am on Saturday, Queen Beatrix was briefly seen in public in the middle of the night on Sunday after Princess Laurentien — the wife of the Queen's third son, Prince Constantijn — gave birth to a baby son.
		And the Soestdijk Palace was busy with the comings and goings of children and grandchildren who privately said their last goodbyes to their mother and grandmother on Sunday.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=5827 (537 words)

	A Brief History of the Peace Palace
		'Hague Conventions', to be staged in the royal palace of Huis ten Bosch.
		Apart from the one-hundred 'chosen ones', as they were called, a large contingent of writers, scientists and activists came to The Hague and staged their own pacifist meetings in the perifery of the official conference.
		The fountain in the Palace court, embellished with (not so peaceful) images of polar bears and their preys, was a gift from Denmark, or, more precisely, Greenland.
	www.ppl.nl /100years/peacepalace (880 words)

	Best of Sicily - Quattro Canti District
		A few majestic corridors crowned by vaulted ceilings are the Royal Palace's silent testaments to another era, when the Normans' polyglot Kingdom of Sicily was the most prosperous country in Europe.
		The palace was the seat of Sicilian administration throughout much of the twelfth century, and Roger is believed to have kept a harem here.
		The Royal Palace is open weekdays and Saturdays during the mornings and most afternoons.
	www.bestofsicily.com /4canti.htm (2717 words)

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