Queen Hedwig Eleonora's bedchamber

Queen Hedwig Eleonora's bedchamber was one of the first rooms in the new palace, some of the palace oldest work of arts belong to this room. The court painter David Ehrenstrahl created a painting of the queen, which hangs in this room. In this painting the guardian government of Carl XI is celebrated, with queen Hedwig Eleonora as the grandest of them all (she was the chairman, but in reality she nearly didn't have any power at all, the power was in the hand of count de la Gardie).