Soestdijk Palace

Soestdijk Palace is a former palace of the Dutch Royal Family. It includes a relevant block and wings. Although named after the village of Soestdijk, which is basically within the municipality of Soest, the Soestdijk Palace is simply north of the border within the municipality of Baarn inside the province of Utrecht. It changed into the home for over six a long time of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard until their deaths in 2004. In the center of the 17th century the Country house at the Zoestdijk become constructed for Cornelis de Graeff. After the rampjaar his son Jacob de Graeff bought it to Stadhouder William III.

Then the palace firstly began as a looking motel that become constructed among 1674 and 1678 with the aid of Maurits Post, who turned into also concerned in building two different royal palaces, Huis ten Bosch Palace and Noordeinde Palace. William left the Netherlands in 1688 to live in London as William III of England. During the French invasion in 1795, the palace turned into seized as a damage of conflict and become an lodge for French troops. When Louis Bonaparte became King of Holland, he took ownership of it and had it prolonged and refurnished.