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Mountain vista. Queen Wilhelmina State Park is a unit of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism in the Ouachita Mountains. The original "Castle in the Sky" lodge was built in 1898 on 2,681-foot Rich Mountain, in Polk County, Arkansas. The park is on Talimena Scenic Drive — northwest of Mena, Arkansas and east of the Oklahoma state line.
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassauwas born on 31 August 1880, in Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of King William IIIand Queen Emma. Her childhood was characterised by a close relationship with her parents, especially with her father, who was 63 years old when she was born.
Rich Mountain is a long, generally east–west-trending ridge composed of hard sandstone. It is located just outside of Mena, Arkansas and is intersected by the Arkansas-Oklahoma border. [1][2] Atop its summit is the Rich Mountain Lookout Tower, which is approximately 2.4 mi (3.9 km) east-southeast of the Queen Wilhelmina Lodge.
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia; 2 August 1858 – 20 March 1934) was Queen of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of King-Grand Duke William III. An immensely popular member of the Dutch Royal Family, Queen Emma served as regent for her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, during the latter's ...
Huis Doorn (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦœyz ˈdoːr (ə)n]; [a] English: House Doorn) is a manor house and national museum in the town of Doorn in the Netherlands. The residence has early 20th-century interiors from the time when former German Emperor Wilhelm II resided there (1919–1941). Huis Doorn was first built in the 13th century.
Coordinates: 52°26′03″N 4°37′32″E. Duin en Kruidberg. The design of the large tower was inspired by the tower of the now lost Zuylestein Castle. Duin en Kruidberg is a stately home in Santpoort, near Haarlem, the Netherlands. Kruidberg started as a summer house for rich merchants from Amsterdam, then it became a hunting lodge of the ...
The symmetrical Dutch Baroque building was designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and was built between 1684 and 1686 for stadtholder - king William III and his consort Mary II of England. The garden was designed by Claude Desgotz. Het Loo and its gardens, in a late-17th-century engraving. After the elder House of Orange-Nassau had ...
In 1901, Queen Emma moved to Lange Voorhout Palace, today's Escher Museum, while Queen Wilhelmina and her husband Prince Hendrik remained at Noordeinde. Until the German invasion in 1940, Queen Wilhelmina continued to make frequent use of Noordeinde Palace. After the war, the palace was again used as the Queen's winter residence.