On Day 3, I went to the Dutch Royal Palace in the central area in Amsterdam. I don’t know why but I’ve been interested in a court culture in Europe since I was a boy. I majored in European history for my bachelor and got interested in a complex of European history dynamics: from a dynasty to a dynasty, from monarchy to republic, from Roman empire to the Catholic world. Among them, the court culture which was kind of a nest to the classical arts and music we are still enjoying sparks my curiosity; as a Patron, they supported various artists and many masterpieces were born with some financial backup from noble/high-class families. The monarch and its family in European countries were also great supports to the beautiful arts.
Moses' Room, the abdication of throne
Usually, the new Monarch appears followed by the former Monarch passed away, e.g. the King Charles III of Britain was enthroned followed by death of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. That said, for the Dutch Royal Family, the former Queen Beatrix decided to abdicate from the Throne while she was alive (still now) and took it over to his eldest son, Willem-Alexander, the current King. The palace in Amsterdam is the place where the former Queen signed an abdication paper and technically the King was borne. The King is the first male monarch in these 130 years of the Dutch Royal blood line.
From a townhouse to the palace
The royal family’s official residence is Huis ten Bosch in the Hague and the palace in Amsterdam functions as the official guest house rather than the daily residence. It was originally designed and built as a Townhouse in 1655 AD by then-mayor Nicolaes Tulp so there were rooms for municipal functions such as the treasury room handling the city’s finance and tax and the meeting room where the mayor and other councils sit together to discuss their municipal governance.
Upon the political instability called the time of Patriots from 1780-1787, Louis Bonaparte, young brother of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was coronated as King Louis I of Holland in 1806 and he appointed the Townhouse as his royal residence when he moved his court to Amsterdam. This is the very moment that the Royal Palace in Amsterdam emerged in its history.
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