Although long known for its hipster edge, today's Berlin is starting to seem downright grown-up. Having lost most of its city center during World War II, it will never have the preserved-in-amber ...

At No. 1, in the broad Unter Den Linden, stands the Wilhelm I Palace; and in it, last week, the wife of Wilhelm II took up her residence, as she recently threatened to do (TIME, July 18).

Germany's Parliament voted 11 years ago to reconstruct the 18th-century palace, which was demolished in 1950 and later replaced by East Germany's Parliament building — itself now knocked down.