The Royal Palace (Khmer: ព្រះបរមរាជវាំងនៃព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, Preah Barum Reachea Veang Nei Preah Reacheanachak Kampuchea; French: Palais imperial de Phnom Penh), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is a complex of structures which fills in as the illustrious home of the lord of Cambodia. Its full name in the Khmer dialect is Preah Barum Reachea Veang Chaktomuk Serei Mongkol (Khmer: ព្រះបរមរាជវាំងចតុមុខសិរីមង្គល). The Kings of Cambodia have possessed it since it was worked in 1860s, with a time of nonattendance when the nation came into turmoil amid and after the rule of the Khmer Rouge.

The royal residence was built in the wake of King Norodom moved the imperial capital from Oudong to Phnom Penh in the mid-nineteenth century. It was worked on an old bastion called Banteay Kev. It faces towards the East and is arranged at the Western bank of the cross division of the Tonle Sap River and the Mekong River called Chaktomuk (a suggestion to Brahma). The compound is being pushed by global researchers to be proclaimed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The foundation of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh in 1866 is a relatively late occasion in the historical backdrop of the Khmer and Cambodia. The seat of Khmer control in the area rested in or close Angkor north of the Great Tonle Sap Lake from 802 AD until the mid fifteenth century. After the Khmer court moved from Angkor in the fifteenth century after obliterated by Siam, it initially settled in Phnom Penh which in those days named as Krong Chatomok Serei Mongkol (Khmer: ក្រុងចតុមុខសិរីមង្គល) in 1434 (or 1446) and remained for a few decades, yet by 1494 had proceeded onward to Basan, and later Longvek and afterward Oudong.The capital did not come back to Phnom Penh until the nineteenth century and there is no record or leftovers of any Royal Palace in Phnom Penh before the nineteenth century. In 1813, King Ang Chan (1796– 1834) built Banteay Kev (the 'Precious stone Citadel') on the site of the present Royal Palace and remained there quickly before moving to Oudong. Banteay Kev was singed in 1834 when the withdrawing Siamese armed force annihilated Phnom Penh. It was not until after the execution of the French Protectorate in Cambodia in 1863 that the capital was moved from Oudong to Phnom Penh, and the present Royal Palace was established and developed.

At the time that King Norodom (1860– 1904) the oldest child of King Ang Duong, who managed in the interest of Siam, marked the Treaty of Protection with France in 1863, the capital of Cambodia dwelled at Oudong, around 45 kilometers upper east of Phnom Penh. Prior in 1863 a brief wooden Palace was built somewhat north of the present Palace site in Phnom Penh. The main Royal Palace to be worked at the present area was composed by designer Neak Okhna Tepnimith Mak and built by the French Protectorate in 1866. On the time of 1865, year of the dairy animals, at nine o'clock toward the beginning of the day, King Norodom moved the Royal court from Oudong to the new Royal Palace in Phnom Penh and the city turned into the official capital of Cambodia the next year. Throughout the following decade a few structures and houses were included, a significant number of which have since been annihilated and supplanted, including an early Chanchhaya Pavilion and Throne Hall (1870). The Royal court was introduced for all time at the new Royal Palace in 1871 and the dividers encompassing the grounds were brought up in 1873. A large number of the structures of the Royal Palace, especially of this period, were developed utilizing mix of conventional Khmer engineering and Thai design yet in addition joining huge European highlights and configuration too. A standout amongst the most abnormal surviving structures from this period is the iron-sided Napoleon Pavilion which was a blessing from France in 1876. It is at present shut to general society for remodels on account of its poor condition of preservation.

Lord Sisowath (1904– 1927) made a few noteworthy commitments to the present Royal Palace, including the Phochani Hall in 1907 (introduced in 1912), and from 1913-1919 annihilating a few old structures, and supplanting and extending the old Chanchhaya Pavilion and the Throne Hall with the present structures. These structures utilize conventional Khmer aesthetic style and Angkorian roused outline, especially in the Throne Hall, however some European components remain. The following significant development came in the 1930s under King Monivong with the expansion of the Royal Chapel, Vihear Suor (1930), and the destruction and substitution of the old Royal living arrangement with the Khemarin Palace (1931), which fills in as the official Royal living arrangement right up 'til the present time. From the rule of King Sihanouk, other noteworthy increases are the 1956 expansion of the Villa Kantha Bopha to oblige outside visitors, and the 1953 development of the Damnak Chan initially introduced to house the High Council of the Throne.

BY : News Thai Star ( LN )