Now THAT's a headstone!
Arriving at Rosenberg Castle we got a combo ticket for both this and Amalienborg Palace.
This castle was ALSO built for King Christian IV in the early 1600's. (See yesterday's blog about his Frederiksborg Castle). It was used by subsequent Kings as a residence for about 100 years.
Rosenberg Castle has a very nicely laid out brochure. There were tabs on the side that let you open to the proper floor map.
Outside of the castle this morning Queen Margrethe is giving watches to her best guardsman. They were marching out in the rain today.
Inside the castle we walked through the rooms in the order they directed us, reading the plaques describing the room. One of the first rooms here was one of those "let's cover the walls in this room in frames", as framed pictures filled all of the wall space.
The king had his potty room tiled floor to ceiling in Delft tiles.
We toured three floors here with the ability to look out the windows and keep an eye on the Queen and her guardsmen and military men.
Large beautiful room.
Three silver lions guarding the throne of the King and Queen.
After the top floors it was down to the basement to see the Crown Jewels 💎.
After that we were on our way out and an alarm sounded, the guards started running around, and the whole place went into lockdown. All the exterior gates to the grounds were locked and guarded. Nobody in, nobody out. Ten minutes later we were allowed to leave. Who knows what that was about.
We had lunch on our way over to Amalienborg Palace.
On the way we stopped at Frederick's Church and took pictures inside. Couldn't go up in the tower; it was closed because of the rain.
Arriving at Amalienborg Palace, we catch part of the changing of the guards.
So this Palace was NOT build by King Christian IV. This was originally built for 4 noble families. The 4 buildings' exteriors are all the same and all face into a huge square with a large horse and rider - King Frederick V, the great, great grandson of Christian IV.
Here you can see the changing of the guard, the horse statue, and two of the Palaces, left and right. There are two more over my left and right shoulders.
In this Palace you learn a lot about how a lot of the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princess are related. There's a lot of rooms with personal photos of kids, grandchildren and books and such on tables and desks like it would have been if they lived there now.
On the third floor we had to put on booties because the Queen and family still use these rooms. The first room had a table and bookcases that were beautifully carved. The amount of detail is amazing.
It's STILL raining so we decided to shop down the Stroget, a pedestrian only shopping area.
Found the Hotel Chocolate, don't know if it's really a hotel or not, but the chocolate passes my taste testing. We have chocolate covered pretzels and almonds and a very chocolaty, hot chocolate made from this syrupy goo.
After getting some dinner along the Stroget, we start our 1 1/2 mile walk back to our apartment on Oster Farimagsgade.
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