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Kingdom of the Netherlands

The main departments of the Royal Household are located at Palace Noordeinde, where the Queen has her offices. The Royal Archives and the Royal Stables are situated in the Palace grounds. The Court is the heart of the Royal Household. It has some 35 members divided between the Civil Household and the Military Household.

Welcome, Welcome


May you be friendly with the followers of Horus

May you go up and go down without being hindered

and without being refused at the Gate of the Duat


May the Door of the Akhet be opened to you

May the doorbolts pull back for you themselves


May you join the Broad Hall of the Two Maats

May the god in it question you


May you make a seat inside the Cavern

May you stride in the town of the Inundation


May your heart be happy in plowing your plot in the Field of Reeds

May the harvest come to you with abundance of grain.


May you go out every morning and return every evening

May a taper be lit for you in the night


May there be said to you ‘Welcome, welcome, in this

your house of the living’


from a series of wishes for the afterlife, Tomb of Paheri. translation, James P. Allen.