Grand tour of the Apple retail palaces of Europe: AmsterdamDutch royalty once shopped in the century-old fashion house where Apple now sells iPads.
<p>FORTUNE -- Queen Emma of The Netherlands, who in 1879 married a man once described as "the greatest debauchee of the age," used to buy her gowns in the building that now houses Apple's (AAPL) retail presence in Amsterdam. So did her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina. And so did Wilhelmina's daughter, Queen Juliana. </p>
<p>In its heyday, the building Leo Hirsch erected on the Leidseplein to
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Grand tour of the Apple retail palaces of Europe: Amsterdam
