King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia
have made another stop in their jubilee visits to all of Sweden’s
counties – this time in Västra Götaland. Their Majesties arrived in
the county’s main city, Gothenburg, where the Governor, Sten
Tolgfors, and Mrs Karin Larsson welcomed them. The King and
Queen were then escorted on a carriage ride through the streets of
the city…
Count Folke Bernadotte - the Swedish royal who helped save thousands during World War Two
4th June 2023
Ahead of the 500th anniversary of modern
Sweden, we are taking a look at a less-known royal who helped save
thousands during World War II – including hundreds of Danish Jews
from concentration camps – Count Folke Bernadotte. Folke Bernadotte
(b. 1895) was the…
The Bernadottes 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…
Princess Désirée of Sweden is the elder
sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. She was born on 2 June
1938 at Haga Palace, a royal residence on the outskirts of
Stockholm as the third child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of
Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She is
the middle of five children, having two older sisters, Princess
Margaretha and Princess Birgitta…
Sweden has a constitutional monarchy
under a parliamentary system – similar to that in other kingdoms in
Europe. The current monarch is King Carl XVI Gustaf, who has been
on the throne since 1973; his heir apparent is Crown Princess
Victoria. The monarch in Sweden…
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prince Carl
Philip of Sweden stepped into their military uniforms to celebrate
Veterans Day. The celebrations were held on Monday, 29 May,
at the Royal Djurgården, in the Swedish capital, in the presence of
all top officials in the country: not…
The link between the two monarchs goes
back to Queen Victoria, who is the great-great-great-grandmother to
King Charles (through his mother, Queen Elizabeth II) 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…
Queen Silvia was back in her home country
of Germany to receive a special honour in her birthplace. While in
Heidelberg (where she was born in 1943), the Queen of Sweden was
given honourary citizenship in a special ceremony. Lord Mayor
Eckart Wuerzner welcomed Silvia…
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel
of Sweden celebrated the 400th-anniversary country’s first high
school. On 24 May, the couple travelled to Västerås, in the
southwest of the country. The city is considered one of Sweden’s
industrial bedrocks and is…
The King and Queen of Sweden have opened
a new Jubilee exhibition at Solliden Palace. On Wednesday, 17 May,
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia opened a new exhibition in
the gardens of the Swedish summer palace. The exhibition is known
in English as the “Jubilee exhibition in glass.” This is the
third year that an exhibition has been staged in Solliden’s English
gardens…
