Guided tours of the Royal Palace

Every summer, we have guided tours at the palace from the end of June until mid-August. And we open the most beautiful and the most magnificent rooms to the public. Every visitor has to follow the guided tour, and of course, we have guided tours in English every day. This is the council chamber. And every Friday at precisely 11, all the members of cabinet, they will come through here and find their places around the table. And then the king will enter through these doors, and as you can see, it's a finer door with golden decoration on the top because this is the king's own doors. He's always wearing his general uniform, and then he greets each and every member of the cabinet before he, of course, takes place here at his throne chair. Once you get inside the palace, you get to see some of the most important and magnificent rooms on the first and the main floor of the palace. It was King Oscar I who inaugurated it, and it was 1,200 guests who were invited. And as we are about 30 persons today, you can imagine that it was rather quite many people here. And therefore, it's said in the invitation that those ladies who wanted to dance, they should dress in happy colors and bright colors, and the ladies that didn't want to dance, they should dress in more dark dresses. Norwegian Royal Palace is a rather small palace compared to other palaces around Europe. It has only 172 rooms. All the rooms are in use. This is not a museum. It's a living palace, and this is what the public get to see when they visit us in summer.