The Charlottenburg Palace was constructed as a summer palace for Queen Sophia Charlotte of the Prussian Kingdom. It was built outside of the city to get away from the politics and bustle of city life. Built in the French style and modeled after Versailles, the palace is situated on vast grounds that include a French and English style garden. Although, the majority of the palace was destroyed in WWII, extensive renovations have restored the palace to as close as possible to its original form. The most memorable parts of this palace are its half glass wall rotunda, the China Room, and it's personal church. The glass rotunda has large windows that look out into the French designed gardens and has mirrors on the rotunda interior that reflect the exterior landscape and give the illusion of being in an open air rotunda. Another significant portion of the palace is the China Room. Queen Sophia loved to collect Chinaware and commissioned a room to be built for a palace extension to house this vast collection. Unfortunately, she died before seeing the completion of the room, but according to her wishes the over 2000 piece collection became housed in the China Room.