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Drakensteyn Castle (Dutch: Drakensteyn, sometimes Drakesteijn or Drakestein) is a small castle at 8 Slotlaan in the hamlet of Lage Vuursche, in the municipality of Baarn, Netherlands. It is the private residence of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands , the country's former Queen.
Castle Location Image Aldendriel Castle: Mill, North Brabant Great Castle: Deurne, North Brabant ... Drakensteyn Castle: Lage Vuursche, Utrecht
The castle Drakensteyn, since February 2014 residence again of Princess Beatrix, is situated just east of the village. Her son Prince Friso is buried in the graveyard beside the moated manor. Apart from the royal family the most famous person from Lage Vuursche is athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen , four times gold medalist in the 1948 Summer Olympics .
Beatrix continues to undertake some royal duties and is a patron of many organisations. She lives in the small moated Drakensteyn Castle near the village of Lage Vuursche, and a townhouse near Noordeinde Palace. [32]
After his mother abdicated and became Princess Beatrix once again, she moved to the castle of Drakensteyn, after which the King and his family moved to the newly renovated monarch's palace of Huis ten Bosch in The Hague in 2019. [34] Willem-Alexander has a villa near Kranidi, Greece. [35]
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Drakensteyn Castle (private residence of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the country's former Queen) Catshuis (official residence of the prime minister of the Netherlands) Former residence Binnenhof, The Hague Palace het Loo, Apeldoorn. Soestdijk Palace (former royal residence of Queen Juliana)
He is suspected to have had a hand in the alteration of the Rembrandthuis at the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam (1627), and in the design of the castle Drakensteyn at Baarn; The Mauritshuis in The Hague (1633). the Theatre of Van Campen (1638), based on the example of Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, in Amsterdam.