Het Loo Royal Estate

On 27 November 1684 Stadholder William III, Prince of Orange, paid 90,000 carolus guilders to acquire Het Loo, an old hunting lodge in the wild and hilly Veluwe area, about 100 kilometres inland from The Hague. It was the beginning of a close association between the House of Orange-Nassau and the Veluwe that remains to this day. Het Loo Royal Estate recounts the stirring tale of the Oranges and Het Loo: Stadholder-King William III's hunting parties, the romantic nature walks of Prince William V, the military exercises of King William III, the Prussian forest roads of Prince Hendrik, Queen Wilhelmina's dancing beeches and the close-to-nature forest management of Queen Beatrix's time. As well as being a fascinating biography of a royal estate, this book describes the Oranges in an unfamiliar role, as landowners. With the aid of previously unpublished historical material and stunning photographs. Het Loo Royal Estate gives a majestic overview of the origins and management of the largest estate in the Netherlands- a Veluwe crown jewel.