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Queen Silvia urges focus on children's online safety during pandemic

Queen Silvia delivered a speech at the Samena Council Leaders’ Summit on Thursday, warning about children’s online safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking from her summer home at Solliden Palace, The Queen said: “You are the conductors and shapers of our digital world. I have learned that you create, manage and deliver online content to over 35% of the world’s population of…
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Queen Silvia writes touching open letter to Sweden's elderly and their carers

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 daily life of many people around the world has been changed dramatically with the coronavirus pandemic. Also in Sweden…
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Who is Queen Silvia of Sweden?

Silvia Renate Sommerlath was born on 23 December 1943 in Heidelberg, Germany, to Walther and Alice Sommerlath. Silvia is half German, through her father, and half Brazilian, through her mother. Silvia grew up with older three brothers (Ralph, Walther, and Jörg), and from…
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The Swedish Royal Family steps out in full swing to honour Nobel Laureates

As each year on the 10th of December, the Swedish Royal Family attended the Nobel Prize Ceremony at the Concert Hall of Stockholm to honour the Laureates. During the ceremony, King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out 14 Nobel Prizes in five categories. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were joined by Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel as they stepped out on the stage of the Concert Hall in…
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Queen Silvia visits Lebanon for Mentor Arabia

From 15 October to 17 October, Queen Silvia was in Lebanon to celebrate the Mentor Foundation’s 25th anniversary. Mentor Arabia is a regional non-governmental organization that advocates for youth empowerment to prevent risky behavior among children and youth and it…
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Queen Silvia on Childhood celebrating its 20th anniversary: "It feels nice"

Queen Silvia has given an exclusive interview to Expressen, a Swedish newspaper, about the World Childhood Foundation that she founded 20 years ago. “Then,” Queen Silvia says, “it was very difficult to talk about these issues… No one wanted to listen and no one wanted to see these children who were so vulnerable. And also not see what happens to the internet and the dangers of the…
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