Sweden

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia conclude counties tour in Värmland

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9th September 2023
As the day of his Golden Jubilee approaches, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have made the last visit to a Swedish county for the occasion.  Their Majesties visited Värmland, a county in the centre-west of the nation, at the border with Norway. Incidentally, it is also the title assigned to Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland.  Upon their arrival, on 7 September, King Carl XVI…
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Why Princess Birgitta of Sweden is an HRH and her sisters are not

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6th September 2023
Of King Carl XVI Gustaf’s four older sisters, only one has retained her Royal Highness status throughout her life – Princess Birgitta. And it’s all to do with now scrapped royal rules around weddings that changed everything for three of the ”Haga Princesses”. The reason why Birgitta remained a Royal Highness while Princesses Margaretha, Désirée and Christina lost the styling upon…
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The sparkling sapphires that link a modern queen to a fallen empire

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2nd September 2023
It’s the tiara everyone is expecting to see this September. The month’s birthstone is sapphire and that just happens to be the star gem of a diadem favoured by a queen who is about to host a right royal celebration for a truly historic event. Silvia of Sweden is at the heart of her country’s festivities for the Golden Jubilee of her husband, King Carl XVI Gustaf, and when that party reaches…
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Royal relations: How King Carl Gustaf of Sweden was linked to Queen Elizabeth II

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27th August 2023
The link between the two monarchs goes back to Queen Victoria, who was the great-great-grandmother to Queen Elizabeth (through her father, King George VI) and great-great-grandmother of King Carl XVI Gustaf through both his mother and father through two of Victoria’s sons, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Queen Victoria’s eldest son, King…
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