It is said that what you do in the first
hour of the New Year will be what you do for most of the year. Next
year could finally see your royal dreams coming true, as the Royal
Palace in Stockholm is giving you the chance to ring in 2017 like
royalty, with a big New Year’s Eve Concert in the Royal Chapel. “On
the last day of the year, we welcome you to the Royal Chapel at the
Royal Palace for a…
Princess Madeleine of Sweden can cross
New York City off her list of residences, as she sold her Upper
East Side apartment last week. Princess Madeleine purchased the
apartment in 2013, the same year she married her husband,
British-American businessman Christopher…
Princess Sofia of Sweden met with female
entrepreneurs during a lunch at the Hotel Diplomat in Stockholm,
which was organised by Veronica Ericsson Laakso, president of the
Business Challenge. A total of 12 participants were invited to
discuss their activities in social…
The Mannequin challenge is taking over
the internet. The challenge, which involves a group of people who
stop in the middle of a movement, while a camera sweeps through the
room. Prince Daniel of Sweden had now joined the trend. Last
Wednesday afternoon during a meeting with Generation Pep Prince
Daniel joined Carolina Klüft and Lina Axelsson Kihlblom.
Prince Daniel can be seen holding his…
Prince Daniel (P: Bengt Nyman via Wiki
Commons) Prince Daniel has given a rare and exclusive interview to
the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The Prince invited the
journalist to his home Haga Palace, or Haga Slott, near Stockholm.
Daniel gave an interview to talk about…
Princess Birgitta of Sweden alive and well despite Spanish media reports
16th November 2016
One of the largest Spanish multimedia
groups, Vocento, incorrectly reported on several of its news sites
last weekend that King Carl XVI Gustaf’s sister, Princess Birgitta,
had committed suicide. Her Royal Highness currently lives
in Mallorca, Spain. One of the reports…
From 5 October to 8 October, King Carl
XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden made an official State Visit
to Germany. German-born Queen Silvia seemed happy to return again
to her home country when they arrived at Berlin’s Tegel
Airport on the morning of 5 October. They were received by
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Head of Protocol Jürgen
Christian Mertens and Sweden’s ambassador…
Swedish media, Expressen and Nyheter 24,
have reported that several top Swedish lawmakers want to abolish
the monarchy and turn the castles into museums. Politicians from
the Centre Party, Social Democrats, Left Party, Green Party, and
Liberal Party have filed a joint motion…
For a long time now, the Swedish Royal
Family has accustomed us to sweet moments shared on social media.
Often we are presented with new official photos, but also very
spontaneous and unexpected pictures of the newest members of the
family. Recently with the arrival of the…
In this edition of “In the beginning”, we
focus on the Bernadotte dynasty which currently rules over
Sweden. The Bernadotte’s first began ruling over the Kingdom of
Sweden in 1818 with King Karl XIV Johan (also called King Charles
XIV John), who was also the King of Norway during this time. He was
born on 26 January 1763 in France as Jean Bernadotte. It was in
1810 that he was…
