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High tech trip for a future queen

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22nd February 2024
The day started with an agreement to focus on bilateral green transition and ended with the official opening of a new consulate general building, but in between there were driverless cars, artificial intelligence and government meetings.Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel continued their four-day visit to California on Tuesday, carrying out engagements in San Francisco and Sacramento…
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The jewels of a queen in waiting transformed by an historic consort

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16th February 2024
It’s one of the best known tiaras of a royal family but this regal sparkler only became a crowning glory almost two centuries after it was created.Queen Silvia of Sweden is often seen in a regal purple tiara made of huge amethysts surrounded by diamonds but until she became consort, in 1976, these gems were a necklace and had a far from starring role in the royal jewellery…
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A romantic but reluctant queen

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22nd January 2024
She was the royal who insisted she would only marry for love while he was a prince with a broken heart and no desire to wed again. However, on a summer’s day, exactly a century ago, they fell in love in London and began a royal romance that would lead to a crown and…
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The princess who wore blue to say 'I do' at a royal wedding decades in the making

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3rd January 2024
It’s one of my all time favourite royal wedding dresses and just a glimpse of it can make me feel ever so slightly emotional. For not only was the pale blue gown worn by a lass called Lilian from Swansea on a cold, December day in 1976 a masterclass in elegance and chic, it was also the wedding dress of a princess decades in the making. It’s now forty four years since Prince Bertil of…
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A jubilee year for the King of Sweden

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31st December 2023
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marked his Golden Jubilee in 2023.While the main celebration was in mid-September, Sweden marked their jubilee king all year long beginning with a new image of the King and jubilee logo released in January.Photo: Thron Ullberg/Kungl…
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A celebratory year for Sweden's Royal Family

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28th December 2023
The past year has been one of many celebrations for the Swedish Royal Family.King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Golden Jubilee (50 years on the throne) was marked throughout the year, but the country had a few other reasons to celebrate in 2023. The country also marked 500…
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The romantic tiara worn by a royal bride on the day she became a queen

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23rd December 2023
It’s among the most unusual pieces in any royal collection and, in recent years, it’s acquired a reputation as the go to tiara for Sweden’s royal brides. The diadem now known as ‘the Cameo’ has a long and romantic history. It was worn by Silvia Sommerlath on the day she married King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and became the country’s queen. Their daughter, Crown…
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