The original rooms
A royal family's home rather than a ceremonial palace.
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Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980, reigning through reconstruction, Indonesian independence and the country's transformation into a welfare state. She was known for a thoroughly unregal manner: cycling, answering citizens' letters herself, and refusing much of the protocol. She abdicated in favour of her daughter Beatrix in 1980, which is a Dutch tradition โ monarchs abdicate rather than wait for death, and Beatrix did the same in 2013 for Willem-Alexander.
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Soestdijk Palace stands between Utrecht and Amersfoort, and for more than half a century it was the home of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard โ the Dutch royal palace a family actually lived in rather than one used for ceremony. It was built in the seventeenth century as a hunting lodge and repeatedly extended, and was presented to Prince William II in 1815 in recognition of his part at Waterloo. Juliana lived here from 1937 until her death in 2004, and ran her reign from it in the informal manner she was known for โ she cycled in the village and was called the plain queen. The palace stayed closed after her death, then was sold in 2017 to private investors for development, and opened to visitors on guided tours through its original rooms. The project's legal position has changed more than once since, so the hours and what is accessible change โ check before going. The wide gardens behind are part of the visit.
A royal family's home rather than a ceremonial palace.
Wide grounds forming part of the visit.
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