So now for the tour of the royal palace. The palace was spilt up into three museums, first that ill be going to was the royal carriage museum, second was the Tre Kronor museum which wasn't very photo accessible due to the lighting, and finally the royal apartments.
The Royal carriage museum was a place that we went due to the royal armory, and treasury being closed due construction. That said it didn't disappoint, on top of being able to see a wide range of carriages used by the royal family throughout the years we also got to learn about the story of the secret but really not so secret love affair between Marie Antoinette and Axel von Fersen. Yes that Marie Antoinette, the one who in no way every said let them eat cake, and anyone who says she did has no clue what they are talking about, but yes the famous one who was sent to the guillotine but everyone's favorite wig wearing crazy person Maximilien Robespierre during the French revolution. It is widely expected that Marie was having an affair with the Swedish count before the Revolution, and even during it. It is thought that Axel attempted to free the King and queen and help them escape to Sweden to live safely. Sadly the escape attempt failed and Axel was beaten to death in the streets of Stockholm about 30 years later. The reason these two have been linked together outside of gossip reports from the time period was a vast series of letters between each other, and they were of the loving variety, as well as a few meetings in Paris when Axel was there. This all suggest that they were together but they were only able to hold an affair due to Marie's position as Queen of France and mother of the Heir-apparent. And back to my previous point about the whole let them eat cake thing, there is no evidence that she said that, and in fact Marie should really be seen as tragic character, she was sent to a foreign land at a young age and put into the crazy life that was Versailles. She was basically cut off from society as Versailles was basically like living on a different planet. So is understandable that she may have said something like that yes, she was very out of touch and didn't understand the bread shortage that was going on throughout France. But the Quote is most likely false and a form of propaganda. Alright tangent over back to the carriages these carriages like I said earlier where used by the royal family.
The Tre Kronor Museum was a museum that was dedicated to the original Palace in Stockholm which was burned down in 1697. And due to poor lighting I was unable to get any quality pictures of the museum which was disappointing because it was a cool museum. The current palace is built on the same location that the other was built. the saddest part of the fire was as you will see later the it is believed that the original palace looked super cool, while the current one is well boring looking.
Now finally the palace itself, which was started shortly after the fire of the first palace in 1697 but it was finished in 1760. It was built to rival or at least be similar to Versailles. at the time of building it Sweden was at the height of it's power and built a palace to show that power. But by the time it was finished the power of Sweden had diminished to the point of being a secondary power and fairly irrelevant on the global political stage.
Finally some miscellaneous pictures from inside of the palace.
That is all for today, I'm going to be moving on the Waterloo, and Napoleon who in my opinion is one of the top 5 western generals of all time.
