This year, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth
II isn’t the only monarch celebrating a milestone birthday.
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf will turn seventy on 30 April. The
popular monarch has been on the throne for 42 years. His family and
the people of Sweden are giving him five days of festivities
to welcome him in to his next decade. Many of the events will take
place at the Royal Palace of…
Welcome to April – a month that
promises several important events in several European royal houses.
We will have birthdays, Jubilees, state visits and royal … births!
Photo: The Royal Court, Sweden Yes, this week we
enter another official #BabyWatchSeason (yes…
New archeological evidence seems to
confirm the bones found in a medieval reliquiary at Uppsala
Cathedral in Sweden, belong to Saint King Erik. Erik IX was a
Swedish king, who reigned c. 1155-1160. No contemporary
historical records of Erik survive, what little is known…
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has made
her first public appearance since giving birth to Prince Oscar just
28 days before. The heir to the throne attended the annual Dag
Hammarskjöld Lecture in Stockholm on Wednesday as she smiled to the
cameras waiting outside to get a glimpse of her. Her visit to to
the event was so she could hear the United Nations
Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speak…
The Swedish Court has released new photos
of Prince Oscar, the son of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince
Daniel who was born on 2 March 2016. The photos are accompanied
with a word of thanks from the Crown Princess and Prince Daniel.
The message reads: “Thank you very much…
By Charlie Proctor, with additional
reporting by Moniek Bloks The royals of Europe have today been
sending messages of condolence to the King of Belgium and the
Belgian people following the terror attacks which took place in the
early hours of Tuesday morning. Several…
The Swedish Court has released the first
photo of five-day-old Prince Oscar of Sweden. Prince Oscar was born
on 2 March at 8.28 PM, weighing 3.6 kilos at Karolinska Hospital in
Sweden. He is the second child of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
and her husband Prince Daniel. Prince Daniel announced the arrival
of their son himself during a press conference later that evening.
Princess Estelle, his…
The newest addition to the Swedish royal
family was born yesterday evening, after Crown Princess Victoria
gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Now his name has been revealed to
the world as Oscar Carl Olof, Duke of Skåne. Prince Oscar was born
at Karolinska Hospital in…
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has
given birth to a Prince at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm today
(Wednesday 2nd March) at 20:28 weighing 3.6 kilos. Addressing the
media in a press conference outside the hospital, Prince Daniel
announced that Princess Victoria has…
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, the
husband of Princess Birgitta of Sweden has died at the of 83, the
Swedish Royal Court has announced. He died in his sleep after a
brief illness in a hospital in Munich, Germany. King Carl XVI
Gustaf released the following statement: ‘I and my family received
the news with great sadness that Princess Birgitta’s husband Prince
Johann Georg of Hohenzollern…
