June is royal wedding month in Sweden and
one particular date is filled with regal marriage memories. King
Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia wed on June 19th 1976 and their
eldest child and heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, chose
the same date for her marriage to Daniel Westling in 2010. Mother
and daughter wore the same tiara for their marriages and selected
cream and green blooms for…
The Norwegian Royal House has shared the
special gifts Princess Ingrid Alexandra received for her 18th
birthday, and they range from jewellery to a new bunad and her
first foreign order. King Harald and Queen Sonja added to their
granddaughter’s jewel vault, gifting her…
Princess Ingrid Alexandra is every inch the doting granddaughter at birthday gala dinner
19th June 2022
What I love most about the Norwegian
Royal Family is that their love for each other, their sense of
family and closeness, is always on display, whether they’re sharing
photos of their summer vacations on their Instagram account or
attending a formal gala event. As the…
Norway was the setting for the largest
royal gathering since pre-pandemic times when members of Europe’s
royal families came together to celebrate the belated 18th birthday
of Princess Ingrid Alexandra. Amidst the historic nature of the
event—Ingrid Alexandra will someday be Norway’s first queen regnant
in centuries—the royal ladies wore their finest gowns and opened
their jewel vaults…
Princess Elisabeth of Belgium made her
gala debut on Friday night when she took part in the official
celebrations for Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway’s 18th
birthday. Wearing a pink/mauve Armani Privé gown, the Duchess of
Brabant looked like a fairytale…
Laughs, tears and tiaras in Oslo as Princess Ingrid Alexandra officially celebrates her 18th birthday
18th June 2022
Friday night was the pinnacle of the
royal year. King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway hosted a gala
dinner in Oslo to celebrate Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s 18th
birthday. From about 7:30 pm, the halls of the Royal Palace started
filling with people –…
She has seen, first hand, all the reigns
that have made modern Norway. And as she watched the coming of age
celebrations of her country’s future monarch, Princess Astrid
helped ensure that her country’s royal past became integral to its
future. Astrid, sister of King Harald and great aunt to the young
woman being feted at a glittering gala dinner at Oslo’s Royal
Palace, is often an…
A forgotten toast and a rapturous reception – Norway’s future queen delivers moving speech to mark her coming of age
18th June 2022
It was, and will remain, one of the most
important speeches of her life. Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
addressed kings, queens, princes, princesses and politicians at a
gala dinner marking her coming of age and showed that she is
negotiating her path to a crown with…
When Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
celebrated her 18th birthday at the Royal Palace, she did so with
many European royals in attendance – some of whom were quite young
for such celebrations. Included in the gala dinner were Sweden’s
Princess Estelle…
Princess Catharina-Amalia, a future queen
and self-described expert on tiaras, has made her tiara debut in
Norway, wearing the same tiara her mother wore on her wedding day
in 2002. Last November, to coincide with her 18th birthday,
Princess Amalia worked with Dutch actress and comedian Claudia de
Breij on an authorised biography to introduce herself to the
public. In that book, Amalia, she…
