LANGE VOORHOUT PALACE
The Lange Voorhout Palace has been owned by the Royal Family for almost a hundred years. In 1896 it was bought by Queen Emma, the great-grandmother of present Queen Beatrix. She had among other things the central stairway constructed, which was meant for only three people: the Queen and the two most important Ladies of the Court. All the others had to take the (yellow) servant stairway, still in use for the second floor, or they had to take the one that has now been replaced by an elevator.
Downstairs in our Café MC (the former kitchen of the palace) you can see what the interior of the palace looked like in Emma’s time and you find portraits of her granddaughter Queen Juliana and her family.
