Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau bought the Sickinga estate in 1676 from Barent van Sevenaer, one of her dignitaries. She renamed the estate Oranjewoud and used it as her summer residence. After her death in 1696 (she died at Oranjewoud) her…

Originally the Binnenhof Court in The Hague was the residence of the counts of Holland. From the sixteenth century onwards the stadtholders of Holland took up residence here and they built their court, which was known as the Stadhouderskwartier, in…

The Frisian stadtholders were obliged to attend the meetings of the States-General at the Binnenhof in The Hague. They spent therefore a large part of the year in The Hague.

They had their own palace, known as the 'Friese Hof' [Frisian Court].…