The Nobel Prize festivities were back to their usual splendour this year after a two-year hiatus due to the global health crisis, and Sweden’s Royal Family shined in the jewels from the Royal Vault as the awards were handed out.
King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Prince Carl Philip, Princess Sofia, Princess Christina and Tord Magnuson all represented the Royal Family at the events on 10 December.
The first order of the day was for the King to hand out the Nobel Prizes at Stockholm’s Concert Hall. The King presented prizes to Dr Svante Pääbo for Physiology or Medicine, Annie Ernaux for Literature; Professor Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for Physics; and Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for Chemistry.
The Royal Family, prize winners and their families and the Nobel committee then attended the Nobel banquet at Stockholm’s City Hall hosted by the Nobel Foundation. The royals escorted several of the laureates and chatted with them throughout the evening.
The ladies of the Royal Family dusted off some of the finest jewels in the Royal Vault for the occasion, with Queen Silvia wearing the Napoleonic Amethyst Parure, Crown Princess Victoria the Diamond Six-Button Tiara and Princess Sofia in her Diamond Palmette Wedding Tiara.
This was the first Nobel appearance in the Six-Button Tiara for Victoria since 2011, and Princess Sofia debuted a new aqua topper to her versatile wedding tiara.
The royals were excited to attend the Nobel festivities for the first time since 2019. Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes photo to say, “After a few years’ break, we finally got to celebrate the Nobel Laureates!”
The King and Queen attended the Nobel concert the previous day at the Concert Hall to celebrate the winners. However, unlike the ceremony and gala dinner, this was not a tiara event.
