Drottningholm
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Drottningholm
| image_skyline = Drottningholms slott.jpg
| image_caption = Drottningholm Palace
| pushpin_map = Sweden Stockholm#Sweden#European Union
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Sweden
| subdivision_type3 = Municipality
| subdivision_name3 = Ekerö Municipality
| subdivision_type2 = County
| subdivision_name2 = Stockholm County
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Uppland
| area_footnotes = {{cite web |url= http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km2 2005 och 2010 |date=14 December 2011 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127055525/http://www.scb.se/Statistik/MI/MI0810/2010A01/Tatorternami0810tab1_4.xls |archive-date=2012-01-27 |url-status=dead |access-date=10 January 2012 }}
| area_total_km2 = 1.47
| population_as_of = 31 December 2020
| population_footnotes = {{cite web | title=Statistiska tätorter 2020, befolkning, landareal, befolkningstäthet| publisher=Statistics Sweden | url=https://www.scb.se/MI0810 |date=31 December 2020 | access-date=2 June 2024}}
| population_total = 316
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = CET
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|59|19|29|N|17|53|20|E|region:SE-AB_type:city|display=inline,title}}
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Drottningholm, literally "Queen's Islet", is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 398 inhabitants in 2010.
It is on the island Lovön in lake Mälaren on the outskirts of Stockholm. Drottningholm Palace, the residence of the Swedish royal family since 1981, is here. The village was planned and built in the mid-18th century for the people working at the palace. It is a good example of how a Swedish village would have looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries, containing many picturesque houses and villas.
Drottningholm is accessible with public transport by taking the metro to Brommaplan, then an Ekerö-bound SL bus.
Ships
At least two ships have been named Drottningholm. One is the former ferry {{SS|Drottningholm|1909|2}} that was built in 1909 and is now a listed historic ship of Sweden. Another was the transatlantic ocean liner RMS Virginian, which Swedish American Line bought in 1920 and renamed {{SS|Drottningholm||2}}.
Among English speakers, the liner's unfortunate tendency to roll inspired the nicknames "Rollingholm" or "Rollinghome".{{cite web |url= http://thegreatoceanliners.com/articles/virginian/ |last=Ljungström |first=Henrik |title=Virginian |work=The Great Ocean Liners |date=23 March 2018 |access-date=18 November 2020}} In the Second World War she was chartered to repatriate thousands of released prisoners of war, civilian internees and diplomats. Among them the English speakers nicknamed her "Trotting Home".{{cite news |url= http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,796250,00.html |title=The Prisoners Return |newspaper=Time |date=8 November 1943 |access-date=18 November 2020}}
See also
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