According to protocol, the royal family should never be left waiting. But sometimes waiting is unavoidable, like at a train station where it might prove impossible to reschedule all incoming trains to accommodate the royals. In such a case, the wait should be as comfortable as humanly possible. The royal waiting room of Amsterdam Central Station is the perfect example. The entirety of the central station is designed by the architect P.J.H. Cuypers in 1881, five years after he designed Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The building is seen by some as his…
