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Prinsenhof Museum- Delft, Netherlands

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First thing, Landon ran into the chapel and said, "Look, mom! A big organ!" Little room off of the entrance/gift shop Our first day in Delft, I fell in love with it. It is small enough to easily navigate, big enough to have plenty to do, with tons of European charm. I wanted to find an excuse to go there again, and going to Prinsenhof museum seemed like a great use of a morning. The train ride from Schiedam to Delft is only 8 minutes, so it makes for easy travel to a completely different place! Landon and the fire place Graphic of William's many wives Prinsenhof was the house of William of Orange, the man who is called “Vader of the Vaderland” or Father of the Fatherland by the Dutch people. During a time of political turmoil, he stepped forward as a resistance leader to the Spanish occupation, and eventually was assassinated for it. The political climate was quite interesting at the time. An Emperor in Brussels appointed his son, Philip, King of t...