The Nobel Prize ceremony took place in Stockholm on Wednesday, and we’ve got all the royal glitz and glam from Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, and Princess Madeleine!
QUEEN SILVIA
Queen Silvia wore the Nine Prong tiara, a large diamond tiara with nine jewelled prongs that arch up over the laurel diamond motif near the tiara’s base.
Queen Sofia, consort of King Oscar II, is the first wearer of this tiara. It was created around the mid-1860s for her when she was still a crown princess, and it was one of her favourites throughout her lifetime. Its base is unflexible, making it difficult to wear, so its usage has been sporadic in the decades since Queen Sofia first wore this tiara.
It was strongly associated with Queen Louise and now is mainly used by Queen Silvia and the Haga Princesses. Queen Silvia frequently wears this tiara at Nobel Prize ceremonies, so it’s not so shocking that she wore it on Wednesday.
CROWN PRINCESS VICTORIA
It’s fitting that Crown Princess Victoria wore the Baden Fringe tiara, because another Princess Victoria brought this magnificent diamond sunburst fringe tiara to Sweden when she married Crown Prince Gustav and Norway in 1881.
The Baden Fringe tiara, so named after her homeland of Baden, was a wedding gift to Princess Viktoria (later Queen Victoria of Sweden) that she wore as a necklace on her wedding day. It later became a regular jewellery piece in her rotation, worn as both tiara and necklace, and remained so until her death in 1930.
After her death, her daughter-in-law, Queen Louise began to wear the tiara with regularity and it passed down through the Haga Princesses—King Carl XVI Gustaf’s sisters—before Queen Silvia married into the Swedish Royal Family and started wearing it. Today, it’s mostly associated with Crown Princess Victoria, who frequently wears it in official portraits and at major events.
PRINCESS MADELEINE
Princess Madeline is most closely identified, jewellery-wise, with the Aquamarine Kokoshnik tiara, so it’s not surprising that she wore this beautiful aquamarine tiara.
Seven large aquamarine gemstones draw the attention on this Russian-style kokoshnik, anchored in diamond settings, and the tiara dates back to over a century, though its exact provenance is unknown. It did, however, wind up in the possession of Princess Sybilla, mother of King Carl XVI Gustaf, who wore it before her wedding to the Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf in 1932 and kept it until her 1972 death.
After her death, her eldest daughter, Princess Margaretha inherited the tiara and she kept it within her family. Her own daughter wore the tiara at her 1998 wedding, but it wasn’t seen again in public until Crown Princess Victoria’s 2010 wedding, when Princess Margaretha showed up in this spectacular tiara. Princess Christina, her sister, has worn the tiara since, and it has become most famous for its appearances with Princess Madeleine, starting in 2015 when she wore the aquamarines to the Nobel Prize ceremony that year. She also wore the tiara at her father’s 70th birthday celebrations, and for a princess party at the Royal Palace for Min Stora Dag, a children’s charity that she’s affiliated with.
Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Sofia have both gone on to wear the tiara as well, though its ownership is still with Princess Margaretha. She now stores it in the royal family’s jewel vault.
