Visit To The Royal Palace

          I got the pleasure of visiting the former royal palace of India. Former meaning that India used to be run a monarchy system where they had kings, queens, and a royal family. Now India is run by a government and the palace where the royal family use to reside is now open for tourism. The group was giving a tour of the grand palace. During thee tour i was able to see where the king sat to address his subjects. We were also able to see portraits of former kings and queens. The thing that  interested me the most was the physicality and architecture of the palace. Majority of the things i saw in the palace was all hand crafted. The detailed wooden doors were hand crafted. Even the portraits on the ceilings were hand painted. There were some doors that were made out of pure silver. Most of the work was done by Indian craftsmen. Now there is an interesting story behind that. The royal family had originally planned to hire craftsman from Europe to oversee the carvings of the palace. Local Indian craftsman had been offended of the fact that people were brought from oversees to do the work instead of craftsmen of the country. The royal family gave the Indian craftsmen a chance to prove themselves and they did more than that. The work done on the former royal palace was one of the best architectural work i had ever seen.
       The royal palace was once in a fire so most of what we saw was done to the palace after the fire. We were not allowed to take photos of the interior but were able to get exterior photos (Seen Below).