Posted on 08/30/2007 3:31:58 AM PDT by WesternCulture
This Friday and Saturday, the American Drama Group Europe (ADGE) will be performing William Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' at Drottningholms Slottspark Teatern in Stockholm. Producer Grantly Marshall talks to The Local about touring the castles of Europe and coming to Sweden.
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Official site of the Royal Drottningholm Palace;
http://www.royalcourt.se/theroyalpalaces/drottningholmpalace.4.19fe5e61065eb9aeea80002743.html
Site of The Drottningholm Palace Theatre (Drottningholms Slottsteater):
http://www.dtm.se/engelsk/eframes_index.html
Some images of The Drottningholm Palace, a piece of architecture I like a lot. In fact, I find it even more appealing than any private house you find in California, Florida or on the French Riviera :-)
Quite a place, I wish I could be there for the performance!! I’d settle for living in that palace as my private residence.........
“I’d settle for living in that palace as my private residence.........”
Me too.
By the way, The Swedish Royal Family disposes of another 11 palaces in the Stockholm area - and that’s just the Stockholm region. They also own a lot of other palaces and other residences in Sweden and elsewhere around the globe.
Few people in Sweden complain about financing this lifestyle of theirs through their taxes, despite the fact that Sweden is a very egalitarian, ‘Socialist’ culture.
Most Swedes would find it much more annoying if their neighbor would buy a more expensive Volvo than they themselves could afford..
Wow, that’s a lot of palaces..... and the taxpayers still pay for them all? I would not have expected that in this era....
Was Descartes in one of these palaces when he died? I recall that he died in Stockholm when staying there to tutor the Queen, supposedly because he contracted pneumonia in an unheated palace?? Or maybe that was just an old wives’ tale......
“Was Descartes in one of these palaces when he died? I recall that he died in Stockholm when staying there to tutor the Queen, supposedly because he contracted pneumonia in an unheated palace?? Or maybe that was just an old wives’ tale......”
- Descartes died at a palace that is no longer (due to a devastating fire), called ‘Tre Kronor’ (’Three Crowns’).
This palace was the major royal palace in Sweden at that time.
Tre Kronor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_kronor_%28castle%29
In order to replace it, ‘Stockholm Palace’ was built at the same site. This palace is today the official residence of the royal family, but when in Stockholm they stay at Drottningholm most of the time.
About Stockholm Palace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Palace
Concerning the Swedes readiness to finance the luxury life of the royals, I think part of the explanation is that Swedes, like most European people, are rather tradition bound. Throughout history, Swedish monarchs have traditionally allied with ordinary people against the nobility. Real Feudalism never existed in Sweden thanks to this.
The royalties have always been viewed, not only as rulers, but also as the symbols of the common people, the core of the nation. Perhaps even more so than in a country like Britain.
Best of regards.
Most people I know doesn't’t mind paying taxes to our dear sweet king since it’s quite low (something like 1$ per year per person). And we get so much value for it!
The guy is basically a retard with no feeling for tact and diplomacy. He constantly makes a fool out of himself and all the newspapers writes happily about it. So we get plenty of entertainment and scandals for just 1$ per year!
“The guy is basically a retard with no feeling for tact and diplomacy.”
Some might say you’re being a bit harsh on him, but undeniably he sometimes causes a lot of amusement.
Most people in Sweden know he once addressed a public audience in Arboga with the words “Dear inhabitants of Örebro”, but my personal favourite is a rather unknown ‘incident’ consisting in Carl XVI Gustaf confusing the universities of Lund and Uppsala in the first lines of a speech. I mean, Arboga and Örebro are located pretty close to eachother and might have been on the same day’s program, but these universities probably never were.
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