Stockholm Palace or The Royal Palace
Our last tour brought us back to Gamla Stan and the Royal Palace. It houses the offices of the Swedish Monarchy as well as halls for diplomatic meetings and entertaining. The private residence of the royal Swedish family is located elsewhere at Drottningholm Palace.
The first few pictures below are used with permission and show all four sides of this structure and an aerial shot.
Every enclosed space is counted as a room totaling 1,430. Only 660 of them have windows.
Brian and I are so grateful to our DIS Short Tour Guides.
Steffen Lovkjӕr is DIS faculty and the Managing Director of Historic Talks based in Denmark. He holds Cand. Mag. (MFA equivalent) in History and History of Art.
Steffen arranged to be our tour guide through the palace. Among other points of interest. he made us aware that the Royal Family of Sweden is a working family. Being the Monarchy and representing Sweden is their job.
Steffen would ask me if the tours met my expectations. Hard to say. We do not generally have expectations. This is all new and exciting for us. We are just grateful to be here. I only had one expectation, and Steffen met it. He was brilliant.
Suzanne da Cunha Bang, Cand. Mag et art has degrees in Danish, English and History of Art. Conversation with her is always illuminating. As DIS faculty she is always looking out for the students well being helping them understand all the tours have to offer. Suzanne makes sure students are prepared with information. She set up the classes about Sweden and Nordic Noir in the days before we left. She is a great resource.
Christian Green is working at DIS as an intern for Wake Forest University at Copenhagen. He is also studying to become a journalist of Science. He manages the students, and the finances while on the trip, making arrangements for rours, venues, the hostel and restaurants. He does Wake Forest proud.