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 royal family of Sweden do like a royal wedding in June. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia married in the month as did all three of their children while three of the king’s four sisters were June brides, too. And all of them had something else in common, too. For…
Prince Nicolas of Sweden celebrated his fourth birthday today, and in celebration and as part of tradition, the Royal Court of Sweden and Princess Madeleine released new images of the ninth in line to the Swedish throne.
The photo released by the Royal Court was taken by…
The Order of the Garter ceremony will see two new royal knights join the procession for the first time. King Felipe VI of Spain and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will be invested at Windsor following their recent appointments to the order. The Queen made King Felipe a Supernumerary Knight in 2017 and conferred the same honour on King Willem-Alexander in 2018.
The two men will join a…
After concluding a state visit to neighbouring Norway, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and his wife, First Lady Kim Jung-sook travelled to Sweden for another state visit on the invitation of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.
The President and First Lady are in…
Three summer pictures have been released by the Royal Court of Sweden of the two children of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, seven-year-old Princess Estelle and three-year-old Prince Oscar.
The images were taken in the gardens of the family’s home at Haga…
Princess Sofia of Sweden has joined her sister-in-law Crown Princess Victoria on the last hike through the Swedish landscapes. The Princess showed Crown Princess Victoria around the province she grew up in.
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has concluded her tour of hikes through the Swedish landscape with a final walk through Dalarna, central Sweden. In the Autumn of 2017, the Crown Princess…
When the news broke that Prince Carl Philip of Sweden was dating former reality show participant and model Sofia Hellqvist, a flood of criticism followed. Many doubted that this most unlikely romance would be sealed by marriage. Today, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia…
King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and their family, have made their traditional appearance at the ceremony of the Polar Music Prize 2019. King Carl XVI Gustaf was asked to hand out the awards to this year’s laureates.
The Swedish Royal Family was well represented…
Happy Birthday, Princess Madeleine! – 37 facts about the Swedish royal on her birthday
10th June 2019
On 10 June 1982, Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine of Sweden was born. To celebrate her 37th birthday here are 37 facts on the Swedish royal:
1. Madeleine admitted in an interview on Skavlan that she is naturally a shy person, but she is “working on it.”
2. When she and her husband, Chris lived in New York City, they would sometimes speak in German to one another to keep people from…
