steam-engine driven electric generators in her hotels. The Grand Lady Wilhelmina became managing director of Grand Hôtel in Stockholm in 1902 at the age of 53. Her most famous project was to build the Grand Hôtel Royal including the immense Winter Garden in the form of an "annex" to the original hotel building. She got the idea for Royal during her first trip to Paris. (Grand Hôtel Royal was the venue for the Nobel Banquet for many years, and was moved eventually to the Stockholm City Hall, where it is held in December each year). The Winter Garden has a ceiling height of 15 m (49 ft) and can accommodate 800 dinner guests. It remains even today an important cornerstone of what the Hotel can offer. Her husband Per Skogh died in 1904 and she then arranged a large headstone including a large angel in marble, still present in front of the family grave in Stockholm. She left Grand Hôtel in December 1910 following a disagreement with members of the board about economy. Villa Foresta Between 1908 and 1910, when she still was working at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, she built her private house – the "Villa Foresta" (Foresta is the Italian word for her last name 'Skog', in English Forest) on the island of Lidingö east of Stockholm. The house is situated on the 'Herserud' cliff, next to the property of Milles Art museum, with a view of the waters and the city of Stockholm, reminding her of the view across Fårösund on Gotland where she grew up. In order to get the right feeling of "Gotland" she used limestone from Gotland as building material. (See the lower part of the building). At that time Villa Foresta was the largest private residence on Lidingö. She lived there until 1922 when the costs for the big house finally forced her to sell the entire building to pay the loans and move out. A company was formed that took over the whole property. Villa Foresta today is owned by a real estate company and rented out to the Swedish-based hotel chain Scandic Hotels. Last years She spent the last four years of her life in a small private flat in "Bolinders Palace", a building adjacent to the Grand Hôtel and part of the hotel complex. The free disposition of an apartment at the Hotel including free meals was actually a part