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Royal Palace House in the Woods in The Hague

Wednesday, 9 July 2025 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  4 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Huis ten Bosch (Dutch: Paleis Huis ten Bosch; English: House in the Woods) is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.

Huis ten Bosch was the home of Queen Beatrix from 1981 to her abdication in 2013; King Willem-Alexander and his family moved in on 13 January 2019. A replica of the palace was built in Sasebo, Japan, in the country’s largest theme park bearing the same name.

The renovation of Huis ten Bosch Palace began in 2014 and took about four years, so it was completed in 2019. The renovation included replacing the roof and the landing staircase, renovating historic stucco ceilings and the facade, removing asbestos and wood rot, and renewing technical installations, according to Architectenweb. The palace was also given a new sandstone color and green window frames, to restore its nineteenth-century appearance. The renovation of Huis ten Bosch Palace cost a total of 63.1 million euros. This amount includes costs for the renovation of the building itself and the furnishings. The renovation took longer and turned out to be more expensive than initially budgeted. Over time, an additional 4.1 million euros was added on top of the 59 million that had already been budgeted. The renovation took five years and cost more than 63 million euros in taxpayers’ money. (Sources are “Rijksoverheid.nl” and “Koninklijkhuis.nl”)

The renovation included making the palace more sustainable, renewing installations and adjusting the layout. The private facilities of the royal family have also been tackled, but this part was not financed from tax money. In June of 2025, the palace served as a backdrop to the traditional pre-summit dinner for the 2025 The Hague NATO summit. The pre-summit dinner was opened with a speech from his royal highness Willem-Alexander in the ‘Oranjezaal’ who invited US President Donald Trump to spend the night at the palace as his personal guest, the first time ever such an invitation was issued to a non-royal foreign dignitary. After a warm welcome where Trump met Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange for the first time, the king especially asked for attention to Article 3 of the NATO charter in his speech. After a ‘restful’ night, Trump posted “The day begins in the beautiful Netherlands. The King and Queen are beautiful and spectacular people. Our breakfast meeting was great!”

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