Coordinates: 59°21′49″N 18°02′22″E / 59.36361°N 18.03944°E Haga Palace (Swedish: Haga slott), formerly known as the Queen's Pavilion (Swedish: Drottningens paviljong), is located in Hagaparken, Solna Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sweden. The palace, built in 1802 – 1805, was modelled after ballet-master Gallodiers Italian villa in Drottningholm by architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell on appointment by Gustav IV Adolf for the royal children. It has been the home or summerhouse for several royalties until 1964 when it was transferred to the government and turned into a guesthouse for foreign head of states. 2009 it was announced that the palace will be given to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and her fiancée as a wedding gift in 2010.
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When Gustav III was killed in 1792 the work on his grandiose castle at Brunsviken was cancelled and his heir to to the throne Gustav IV Adolf instead started building a more modest palace in Haga outside Enskede. The king turn to relatively young architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell with the mission to build a modern house in Italian villa style. Gjörwell had been employed at Haga since 1788 and had studied for Louis Jean Desprez both at the erection of the royal pavillion and with the incomplete castle in Brunsviken. He was also the architect behind the Echo Temple. He designed it after ballet-master Gallidiers Italian villa in Drottningholm which Gjörwell had design himself. The foundation was laid-out in may 1802 and already before the end of the year the building was under roof. Built-master was Herman Edberg who, except from skilled craftsmen as bricklayers, timber-men and carpenters also had s group of infantrymen from Södermanlands regiment at his disposal. In december 1803 Gustav IV Adolf was informed that the stands were removed and the marble columns were raised. The columns were originally from Finland and brought to Poland during Sigismunds era. They were returned to Sweden by Gustav II Adolf and used by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger in the building of the German church in Karlskrona. When the was rebuilt after a massiv fire in 1790 14 columns were left which Gustav VI Adolf required for future use. The floor were made out of oak from the Fredrikhovs Castle and stone intended for Gustav IIIs castle. The whole interior were finshed in the end of 1805.
From the 1820s the palace was used as a summerpalace for Crown prince Oskar and his Josephine. In the 1860 the palace were renovated for Oskars I:s youngest son August and his wife, the German princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg. Therese lived until 1914 and put her touch to it during her 50-year-stay. The royals stopped living in the palace some time after WW1 until prince Gustav Adolf duke of Västerbotten moved in with his consort in 1932 after some thorough renovation. The princesses Margaretha, Birgitta, Desiree and Christina and prince Carl Gustav, Sweden's present king, were all born here. The family left the palace in 1950.
In begun to be used to house foreign heads of states and two years later the king formally transferred the property to the government for this purpose.
In 2009 the government announced that the Haga will be transferred back to the royal family as a wedding gift for Crown Princess Viktorias wedding to Daniel Westling in 2010.
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Coordinates: 59°21′49″N 18°02′22″E / 59.36361°N 18.03944°E
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