Since the outbreak of coronavirus, many
royal families have had to live their lives quite differently. The
same applies to the Swedish Royal Family. King Carl Gustav and
Queen Silvia decided to temporarily move from Stockholm Palace to
the smaller Stenhammar’s Palace. Let us take a look at this rather
unknown Swedish castle which is now the Swedish royal family
“corona”…
On 14 May, Crown Princess Victoria of
Sweden opened Europe’s ECRD2020 conference on rare diseases via
video conference as the patron of Sällsynta diagnoser (Rare
Diseases Sweden). The conference was due to take place in Stockholm
from 14 to 15 May, but due to the…
Princess Birgitta of Sweden and
Hohenzollern, the second oldest sister of the Swedish monarch King
Carl XVI Gustaf, is prevented from going home to Spain due to the
ongoing pandemic. The Swedish princess has been unable to return to
her home in months because of the…
On May 7 1697, a fire broke out and
destroyed much of the old royal palace in Stockholm. The castle Tre
Kronor, or Three Crowns in English, is now only a footnote in
history with the present royal palace of Stockholm built above the
ruins of the old middle-aged castle that burned down over 320 years
ago. But why exactly did the castle burn to ashes so mysteriously
and suddenly? Tre Kronor…
King Carl XVI Gustaf turned 74 years last
week and spent the day at Stenhammars castle, where he is in
voluntary quarantine with Queen Silvia. However, even though the
day was moderately celebrated in a safe environment, the king is
now being criticized by Swedish media for…
Queen Silvia of Sweden has written a
letter of support to the elderly, their relatives and care workers.
In the letter the Queen recognises the difficulties that the
COVID-19 pandemic has caused especially for the elderly and
expresses her gratitude to their carers. The…
Crown Princess Victoria has paid a
poignant visit to the grave of a royal relative to lead tributes to
a missing Queen of Sweden. On the anniversary of the death of Crown
Princess Margaret, her descendants remembered her with an
arrangement of the flower she shared her name with and left daisies
on her grave. Margaret died on May 1st 1920, plunging her family
and her country into grief. She had…
Although he was unable to celebrate the
occasion with the public as usual, King Carl Gustaf marked his 74th
birthday with a series of new photos released by the royal court.
In the photos, taken on 29 April at Stenhammar Palace in Sörmland,
the King is dressed in tweed…
Crown Princess Victoria and her family
have a new four-legged addition to the household. As reported
earlier this week by Swedish magazine Svensk Damtidning, the Crown
Princess Family have a new dog which moved in with the family at
Haga Castle outside the Sweden’s…
A special royal tradition that sees the
Swedish Royal Family give their support to children in need has had
a very different look this year because of the coronavirus
pandemic. The annual event, which sees Queen Silvia welcome
fundraisers to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, has gone online.
Queen Silvia usually invites school pupils selling mayflower pins
to her home as the annual campaign gets…
