Ulriksdal Palace

This guide to Ulriksdal Palace in Stockholm traces its name back to an infant grandson of Queen Hedvig Eleonora who died before his first birthday in 1684, and the stranger turn the building took after the Russo-Swedish war of 1808-1809. You'll hear how King Charles the Fourteenth John converted this palace, begun in the 1640s for constable Jacob De la Gardie, into a veterans' hospital from 1822 to 1849. It follows the Confidencen, Sweden's oldest surviving court theater on these grounds, and the sculpture-filled former orangery beside the lake.