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…
