Queens Apartments Versailles

The versailles is an apartment located in queens county the 11360 zip code and the nyc geog district 25 queens attendance zone.

Queens apartments versailles. It now gives access to the royal courtyard before finishing the tour of the grand apartments. 1 the old chapel. Maria theresa of austria marie leszczynska and marie antoinette. It was designed for louis xivs queen marie therese of austria.

Built in 1680 this staircase soon became the busiest in the palace as it led to the king and queens apartments. The grand appartement de la reine is the queens grand apartment of the palace of versailles. The decoration of the queens apartment is very much similar to the kings apartment. After the death.

Marie therese dautriche wife of louis xiv marie leszczynska wife of louis xv and marie antoinette wife of louis xvi. This staircase links the first floor to the garden level of the midi wing and to the ground floor of the dufour pavilion. The only thing that changed during her tenure as queen was the function of each room. A guard room two antechambers a chamber and a cabinet.

The lavishly decorated royal bed canopied with rich brocade lied facing the sun. The queens bed chamber this is the main room of the queens apartments and she would have spent most of her time here. Not long after the court moved permanently to versailles the marie therese died. The layout of the first floor of the palace was perfectly symmetrical with the.

The queens hidden door inside buckingham palace good morning britain duration. In this room the royal rising and retiring ceremonies of the king took place. Grand appartement de la reine consists of several rooms. The ceiling is from.

The queens apartments which overlook the midi parterre are a series of rooms whose layout is identical to that of the kings state apartments to the north. Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi the grand appartement de la reine served as the residence of three queens of france. This was where the queen would give birth again in public. The queens apartment at versailles fr.

Three queens occupied this room at different times. Its decor is largely from the 17th. Not only would she sleep here but she would perform her toilette which became a court event due to the etiquette of the french court. As in all royal residences the kings apartment contained the customary succession of rooms.

The room represents the three last queens that lived here. Marie therese had little enjoyment of the queens apartment since for the majority of her life versailles was either the small hunting lodge of louis xiii or in a constant state of construction. Versailles palace apartments kings bedroom. Queen maria theresa louis xivs wife was the first person to live in these apartments but she died not long after moving in in 1683.

The sun kinglouis xiv died in this room. An inside look at the newly refurbished queens apartment france 24 english. The queens bedchamber was the place where the. Towers at waters edge apartments.

The main room in the queens apartment is the queens bedchamber.