European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Rpyal style athe Tido Al hut Lijo one through Elliree centuries of hanging style in Interior decoration. The rooms of this dutch Palace Onte Home to the House of Orange Are Iran Jed chronologically from the Lime in built 16bs-169z by Kink Slad Holder William 111 to the death of Queen Wilhelmina in 1962. The Palace sits on spacious grounds at Apeldoorn in Central Holland visitors can gel a Laste of what is o come by firs seeing the film in English German and French in High season As Well As dutch shown continuously in the forme stables attached to the Palace. It helps to get All he Kings named William sorted Gui and to understand thai the firs William Iii was also King of e England. One learns thai the Palace contains fhe Only set of Silver furniture in the Netherlands that the victims of the Zeeland floods of the 1950s Frund Refuge Here that the Flowers in a room Are often arranged ust like those in paintings on the Walls and that he Palace contains a clock which Chimes 13 songs so that it does t always play the same song at the same hour. Met Loo Het Low Ives built As a Hunting seat horses Are still kept in he stables and during the autumn season the Dulch royally returns fur the Hunt. The Palace was Buill to a French design by a Hugenot refugee but the gardens ire dutch wide not French Long and narrow. The Dulch Are proud of the gardens Flen compared to those of Versailles. Like the Palace they have been restored to the original. When English landscape gardens became the fad Back in 1808, they were filled in. Excavations turned up the original plan and even some of the Sra Umry was Rescue to. Children dabble in the Garden fountains which Are fed by fresh water from nearby streams the water is not recirculated. Gravel paths Lead among the Hedges and Flowers past two Globe fountains one representing the heavens and one the Earlh. This is Ihu Queen s Garden the King s Garden at one Side of the palate is less ornate , Good for playing a game of Boule. Public entry to the Palace is through the basemen. There Are no corridors in the building just one set of apart Neils leading into the next. Tapestries and portraits of the Royal family adorn Many of the Wall. A set of one dimensional portrait dolls stand Al either Side of the fireplace in the portrait gallery they Are of William Iii and Mary Stuart As children. The couple was married at Ages 12 and 9, and the portrait done of them at the time is in the Rijk museum in Amsterdam the dolls substitute for the portrait at Het Loo. The oldest apart meals in the Palace were those of William and Mary. Each set of rooms contains a closet really a conversation room that Only the most intimate friends were allowed to enter one of the newer rooms is Queen Sophie s boudoir furnished in Gaudy moorish style. The furniture was found m it attic of .1 television station which had in on in Mlo use in a children s program. The left Wing or the Palace contains an exhibition of clothing and medals of the Royal family the right Wing is reserved for changing exhibitions. The old stables a Short distance from the Palace serve As a showcase for carriages and cars used by the Royal family. A Ted House restaurant is adjacent to the Palace and ,1 self serve res Laurall can be found Al the stables. Het Loo is open year round 10 . To 5 . Closed mondays and Christmas Day. The gardens stables and wings Are open april 1-nov. And the wings Are open Only in the afternoons. Entry fee is 5 guilders Aboul $2.20. There is a free parking lot on Amersfoort Eweg Al the Entrance to the Royal Park. Dogs Are not allowed. . Queen Sophi boudoir in a Tattoo it Ltd it h 10 tit inti might Zunt it Dembei 4, 1986
