Not entirely correct. It was bought by King Willem II and his youngest son Hendrik has also lived there.
The Lange Voorhout (Voorhout with emphasis on the second syllable) is one of the most famous and oldest streets in the Dutch city of The Hague.
Well-known buildings on the Lange Voorhout include the Kloosterkerk (no. 2), the Pagehuis (no. 6), the former home of the Supreme Court (no. 34, before 1988: Huis Huguetan), Hotel Des Indes ( no. 54-56) and the Lange Voorhout Palace (no. 74, since 2002 Art Museum "Escher in the Palace"). Among the often large buildings, the narrowest residential house in The Hague (width 183 cm) can also be found at no. 32A. Theater Diligentia (no. 5), Pulchri Studio (no. 15), Bodega De Posthoorn (no. 39a) are located across the street.
Various embassies are also located on Lange Voorhout. Even before the attacks on September 11, 2001, those of the United States (No. 102) and the United Kingdom (No. 10) were heavily guarded. The building of the former American embassy dates from 1959 and was designed by architect Marcel Breuer. At no. 42, the former home of Theodore baron de Smeth van Deurne, is the embassy of Switzerland, at no. 50 that of Spain and at no. 58 that of Austria.
The Lange Voorhout Palace is a former city palace on the Lange Voorhout in the Dutch city of The Hague. The Lange Voorhout Palace was built in 1764 by Pieter de Swart for Anthony Patras, deputy of Friesland and mayor of Sloten. Patras died shortly after completion of the house ('Huize Patras'), after which it came into the hands of the merchant family Hope. In 1811, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Marie Louise of Austria stayed in the house for two days during an official visit to The Hague. The then owner, the banker Archibald Hope, was a member of the municipal council of The Hague and had made it available to the city council for this purpose. it is a royal palace. The purchase price did not have to be paid until February 1847, in five installments. Afterwards, the building was only named Paleis Lange Voorhout. Willem's youngest son Prince Hendrik lived there and after his death it came into the property of his sister Princess Sophie, married to Grand Duke Karel Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Queen Regent Emma bought it from the Grand Duchess at the end of her second regency and stayed in the palace during the winter. Queen Wilhelmina also used the palace as a winter palace after her abdication. At that time, the court staff lived partly on the third (roof) floor of the palace, which had been converted into staff quarters by order of Queen Emma. The rest found shelter in the top floor of the adjacent Russenhuis, which was connected to the palace via a breakthrough on the top floor. it served as a working palace. Queen Beatrix also used the location as a working palace, until Noordeinde Palace was made suitable as a working palace in 1984.
Princess Juliana sold the palace to the municipality of The Hague in 1990. This sale was subject to the important condition that it must be used for cultural activities. The palace turned out to be in a dilapidated state; there was no heating and the roof had to be renewed. In addition, facilities had to be installed in connection with fire safety, such as a fire escape and escape routes. Because the budget was not too large, some things could not be realized immediately. For example, an air humidity installation was initially omitted. The intensive renovation took place in the winter of 1991/1992. Queen Emma's salon was transferred in its entirety to Het Loo Palace, only the original paneling was retained. The then director of the Haags Gemeentemuseum, Rudi Fuchs, was given a lot of freedom for the design. He commissioned the American artist Donald Judd to design patterns for the new parquet floors. He also had 18th- and 19th-century rooms, where wall coverings had once been, painted with hard colours, including navy blue, hard red, lemon yellow and grass green. Fuchs had designer Walter Nikkels furnish a number of rooms, including the museum shop, public areas and the space ticket sales take place. Fuchs had three large statues by André Volten placed in the backyard. Due to a lack of money, the dilapidated sculpted angel figures in the pediment on the facade were not replaced by new sculpted statues, but by plastic casts. Since 1992, the palace has been used as a museum. Initially there were changing exhibitions, but since 2002 the Escher museum has been housed in Het Paleis, dedicated to the graphic art of M.C. Escher.
Maurits Cornelis (Mauk) Escher (June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972) was a Dutch artist, known for his woodcuts, wood engravings and lithographs, in which he often played with mathematical principles. He signed his work with MCE. His engravings often depict impossible constructions, studies of infinity and interlocking geometric patterns (divisions of planes) that gradually change into completely different shapes. Some very well-known pictures that he drew are designed around impossible objects such as the Penrose staircase. It was not until the 1950s that he gained wider recognition as an artist, especially in the US. Crystallographers and mathematicians discovered symmetries and themes from their fields in his work. Escher's graphic work has been used in scientific textbooks since 1960. In the 1960s, much to his surprise, his work was embraced by hippies and pop stars because of the fantastic parallel worlds.
In addition to the monumental buildings, there are three monuments on the Lange Voorhout: the monument to Queen Emma, that to Duke Karel Bernhard von Saksen-Weimar (1792 - 1862) and the water pump.
Queen Emma speaks for itself, the 2nd wife of King Willem III and the mother of Queen WIlhelmina. I am too young to have known/experienced her, but apparently she was loved by the majority of the Dutch population.
Karel Bernhard (30 May 1792 - 31 July 1862), Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was a German general in the Dutch service and, among other things, commander of the Dutch East Indies army. Karel Bernhard was the second son of Grand Duke Charles August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Grand Duke Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt. His older brother, Karel Frederik, succeeded his father. He married Grand Duchess Maria Paulowna of Russia, who was a sister of Queen Anna Paulowna of the Netherlands. His older sister was Caroline, who married Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick Lodewijk of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.Karel Bernhard married Ida, daughter of Duke George I of Saxe-Meiningen. Princess Ida was a younger sister of Queen Adelaide of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV. Eight children were born of this marriage
