Norway

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit in matching outfits for major sports event

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit are embracing the cold weather of the last days of winter together.  The Norwegian Crown Prince and Crown Princess chose coordinating red ski-jackets to attend the opening ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 at Torvet in Trondheim. They joined the thousands of crowd members to help launch the eleven day…
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Features

The perfect royal tiara for February babies

February’s birthstone, the amethyst, is found across royal jewellery collections. However, it is the Swedish royal family that has one of the most impressive pieces: the Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara.  The Napoleonic Amethyst Tiara began life as a necklace that reportedly…
Sweden

Change and challenge mark a big year for the royal family of Sweden

While 2023 proved to be a big year for the Swedish Royal Family, with King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Golden Jubilee, 2024 was much more sedate in comparison. But despite the lack of jubilee celebrations or milestone birthdays, the Swedish Royal Family still had plenty of reasons to celebrate and stay in the headlines. Here are ten of the biggest moments for the Swedish Royal Family this year. Crown…
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Sweden

Queen Silvia brings grandchildren along to festive engagement

It was a full house at the Royal Palace earlier Monday when Queen Silvia accepted the Christmas trees for the Royal Palace alongside her eight grandchildren. In a longstanding tradition dating back to the 1960s, forestry students from the Swedish University of Agriculture…
Royal News

Sparkling tiaras with romantic stories are chosen by Sweden's royals at the Nobels

The Swedish Royal Family has brought all the glitter to the 2024 Nobel Prizes. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden presented the awards for Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm. The ceremony is a formal event where the women of the Royal Family wear gowns and tiaras. For 2024, they chose several stunning pieces. Queen Silvia in the Leuchtenberg Sapphire…
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Sweden

King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia see premiere of new royal ballet

King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden finished a busy week of engagements with a trip to the ballet on Friday evening. The Swedish King and Queen attended the world premiere of the Royal Swedish Ballet’s new production, Gustavia. The new ballet is a retelling of Gustav Badin Couschi’s life. Badin was born in the mid-eighteenth century in the West Indies and was brought…
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