Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of
Sweden attended a conference about neuropsychiatric
disabilities. On 25 April, Their Royal Highnesses arrived at
the Karolinska Institute and were welcomed by the Principal, Annika
Östman Wernerson, and Professor Sven Bölte. Once the Prince
and Princess took their seats in the Aula Medica (Latin for Medical
Classroom), they listened to lectures…
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of
Sweden enjoyed a night away from their three boys as they handed
out awards at the Elle Gala in Stockholm. On Friday, 21 April, the
Princely Couple arrived at the Grand Hotel in the Swedish capital,
where they had the…
Hundreds of years after the Royal Palace
of Stockholm was built, the Forgotten Balcony is finally complete.
The completion of the balcony comes just in time for King Carl XVI
Gustaf’s birthday on 30 April and the celebrations of his Golden
Jubilee in September.
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia
have continued their tour of Sweden’s 21 counties with a visit to
Blekinge County. The visits are to celebrate the King’s 50th
anniversary on the throne. Upon arrival, Governor Ulrica Messing
and her husband Torsten Jansson received the King and Queen before
visiting the Blekinge museum, where Their Majesties viewed an
exhibition created by…
Crown Princess Victoria has visited
Sonfjället National Park, the latest stop on her goal to visit all
of Sweden’s national parks to encourage enjoying the outdoors. The
Sonfjället National Park is located in the province of Härjedalen
in central Sweden, and is best…
The King and Queen of Sweden have sent
Easter well wishes on social media. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen
Silvia are pictured on the Royal Court’s Instagram in Storlien
while skiing. On Instagram, the Royal Court wrote: “Happy Easter
wishes from the King…
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of
Sweden took part in a seminar on dyslexia organised by their
foundation. On Tuesday, 28 March, the Prince and Princess
arrived at Jonkontoret, a conference space in Stockholm,
accompanied by the Speaker of the Parliament, Andreas Norlén, and
the Minister of Education, Lotta Edholm. The first session of
the conference was dedicated to the…
King Carl XVI Gustaf has put a royal
tradition on hold. A string of royal evening receptions that
usually take place in the spring in Sweden have been cancelled. And
all because of the upcoming Golden Jubilee. Margareta Thorgren, the
Swedish Royal Court’s head of…
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to undertake state visit to crucial NATO member
22nd March 2023
The Swedish Royal Court has announced
that King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia will undertake a State
Visit to the Republic of Estonia at the beginning of May. The
trip will be undertaken from 2 to 4 May. It will include stops in
the capital Tallinn, and Tartu, the…
Each royal house has its own royal
chivalric orders. Sweden has several royal orders; the Order of the
Polar Star is one of the oldest orders in Sweden. The Order of the
Polar Star was established on 23 February 1748 by King Frederick I,
along with the Order of the Sword and the Royal Order of the
Seraphim. Although some orders date back as far as 1606, they were
only codified in 1748 by…
