Mr Leterme will present his government to King Albert II at the royal palace on Thursday.
In the past, elections were marred by vote-buying as well as interference from the Royal Palace.
Playing frisbee in the rain outside the old royal palace in Cetinje, they are best friends.
Soon enveloped by an expanding city, the fortress lost its defensive function, and in its place came a royal palace.
He received the gold master-keys of the Tower from the Lord Chamberlain, symbolising his responsibility for the royal palace.
Protestors have been gathering around the royal palace for another major rally aimed at bringing down the Thai prime minister.
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Even a Michelin two-star chef couldn't tempt some acrophobic invitees to an exclusive lunch overlooking the Belgian royal palace last summer.
The market gradually migrated from the royal palace to the bourgeois parlor, and the center of production moved from Switzerland to France.
In Phnom Penh, students wearing white shirts with black ribbons pinned on them sang songs before offering flowers at the royal palace.
The Royal Palace shut briefly but four days later it was business as usual, with Norwegians and tourists milling around the forecourt.
Benin kings, or "obas, " often kept artists at the royal palace to create brass-cast artworks heralding their feats in trade and war.
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The most beautiful area is "the Rock" the local nickname for the historic streets around the royal palace that are filled with period townhouses.
Among the PAD's backers are some hardline army generals and, it is rumoured in hushed tones, influential figures close to the royal palace.
Most of the city's rental agencies offer regular guided tours, from the traditional (canal houses, Red Light District, Royal Palace) to the more outlandish.
On the night itself, thousands of Thais from all over the country gather outside the royal palace to light candles and sing adoring songs.
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Breivik said he had also considered bombing the Royal Palace -- but without harming the royal family -- City Hall and Aftenposten, a national newspaper.
Nadesar--a classic example of Raj architecture and a royal palace from 1889 to 1931--sits smack in the heart of the world's oldest living city, Varanasi.
He remained confined to the royal palace for most of the four years of the regime's rule, during which time an estimated 1.7 million people died.
Some of the former king's ashes will be scattered at the confluence of three rivers and the remainder stored in an urn in the royal palace.
Beginning in Phnom Penh, with a stay at Raffles Hotel, the first few days are spent exploring the city's sites, including the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda.
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Officials say they are expecting thousands of people to line the streets from the airport to the royal palace when his coffin arrives in the capital, Phnom Penh, on Wednesday.
Queen Beatrix swore in the new government at the royal palace in the The Hague, in a ceremony that was broadcast live on Dutch television and online for the first time.
Originally conceived as a royal palace for visiting VIPs, the nearly-500-room hotel sits on 52 acres of gardens (complete with 600-year-old olive trees imported from Lebanon) and guests are chauffeured around in Cadillac golf carts.
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From there, it is possible to visit both Ndawara Highland Tea, the largest tea plantation in West Africa, and the Foumban Royal Palace, the residence of a neighbouring king whose dynasty was founded in 1394.
It will be shown alongside Titian's two other known versions of John the Baptist, loaned from the Accademia gallery in Venice and the monastery at the former royal palace of El Escorial, near Madrid.
Meeting Mr Qaddafi in a bedouin tent set up in the grounds of a former royal palace, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is understood to have stressed that the time was ripe for courageous decisions.
Before writing off the former royal residence of Versailles as another tourist trap, bear in mind that most visitors stick to the Royal Palace and Chateau and never venture to the grounds beyond.
Later Sihanouk, who spent much of the Pol Pot era a virtual prisoner in the royal palace, said he was unaware of the Khmer Rouge's worst excesses which included the killing of about one million Cambodians.
To the west of where the pyramid is today was another royal palace, the Tuileries, and it was a long-term ambition of the later French kings to link up both residences with two parallel wings, creating a great central courtyard.
Not to be outdone by his French counterpart, on the other side of the English Channel, Henry VIII (1509-47) was a skilled practitioner of the sport and famously built a court at the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, which still survives today and is used for modern competition.
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