60th Birthday Celebrations of King Carl XVI Gustaf (28-30 April 2006)

[GrandDuchess]

This thread is reserved for news and pictures concerning the upcoming celebrations of His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden! There will be various events marking his special day, both some more low key events and some big official ones as well.

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[Adry]

Fantastic!...Looking forward seeing all the royals coming to Sweden...jewels and glittering

[Gita]

Will there be a tiara event?

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Gita

Will there be a tiara event?

There will be a gala dinner on the evening of his birthday at the Royal Palace, so I guess that's the event were we might expect some nice attires to appear. :)

[Royal Fan]

whos expected to show up?

[robby86]

Are there going to be many other royals coming to the party?

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Originally Posted by robby86

Are there going to be many other royals coming to the party?

So far at the moment, i think there have been posted nearly most all European Royals will be there, and especially Prince William will be there along with his father the Prince of Wales and step-mother the Duchess of Cornwall.

[Larzen]

There are no anouncements on who will attend, JUST specualtion, I especially do not think William will be there but thats just a guess

[Marengo]

The dutch RF has there own obligations on april 30th, Queensday. And on the 28th I believe they have the annual Queensday concert in Palace Noordeinde. But maybe they will fly to Stockholm in the afternoon so they can show up at the tiara event in the evening, as happened at the Kings 50th birthday (both Beatrix and birthdaygirl, and godmother of the king, Queen Juliana showed up).

[GrandDuchess]

Yes, as Larzen said - so far there's only speculations as to which royals will come to Sweden, but I expect that we will see quite a big gathering, hopefully as big as for the King's 50th, but we'll have to wait and see.

I also don't think Prince William will come, he's still not active as a royal in the European royal circles (abroad), so I doubt he would suddenly appear at the King's 60th birthday just like that. But of course it would be wonderful if he did, and then he would also have a chance to meet Princess Madeleine (not implying anything whatsoever of course )

[Gita]

But the gossip magazines would love Prince William and Princess Madeleine to be there at the same time! Can you imagine what nonsense stories they will be coming up with?!

[GrandDuchess]

Expressen today reports that instead of the normal, exclusive gifts that the King would be expected to receive from the official Sweden for his 60th birthday in April – His Majesty has made it clear that he does not wish to expand his collection of things/gadgets, instead he wishes for contributions to the newly established foundation that will award scholarships to young leadership talents.

- When we have asked the King what he wishes to have for his 60th birthday, he has made clear that he doesn’t wish to expand his storage of things, but wants to do something for others, comments the Marshal of The Realm, who will lead the fundraising for the foundation Young Leadership.

The leadership award, which is to be called Kompassrosen (The Compass Rose) will be awarded yearly to three young leadership talents. The King will chair the committee who will announce the recipients.

The prizes will be awarded with the Scouting movement’s values as a base, and in the board of this recently established foundation one can find some of Sweden’s most powerful people, among them the President and CEO of Ericsson.

The article from Expressen (in Swedish) can be found here.

[Larzen]

From www.kongehuset.no

29.4
The King and Queen, The Crown Prince and Crown Princess attends the 60th birthday of HM King Carl Gustaf of Sweden

[Josefine]

and here is the link for his 50th borthday
this was 10 years ago

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...gustaf-46.html

[Larzen]

The Royal Court has made a special birthday page for the celbrations, not very impressive IMO, especially when you compare it to the british one for Queen Elizabeths birthday.
http://www.royalcourt.se/evenemang/h...780005180.html
Anyways, Many thanks to LENA:) who posted the link on the SRMB

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Larzen

The Royal Court has made a special birthday page for the celbrations, not very impressive IMO, especially when you compare it to the british one for Queen Elizabeths birthday.
http://www.royalcourt.se/evenemang/h...780005180.html
Anyways, Many thanks to LENA:) who posted the link on the SRMB

Pffft... A drop in the sea compared to how the BRF's official websites are made... :) But it's a start, a step in the right direction... Hopefully they'll become better and make more efforts around the website, in our day and age it's really important.

[Larzen]

Expressen today publishes a guestlist but it seems totally like they made it up, especially the Denmark part is strange

It says, Margrethe, Henrik, Frederik, Mary, Joachim, Alexandra, Elizabeth, Benedikte, Nikolai, Felix will come. As we know all those cant be out of the country for two days, somone has to be regent, and why would Joachims exwife be invited and what would the children do in such a birthday party, and its not like Joachim and ALex are afraid to let the nannies take care of the children

It continues with Norway it says Harald, Sonja, Haakon and Mette-Marit will attend which they will then they say Ingrid and Sverre Magnus will come and then Märtha Louise, ML is currently in USA for a month on tour and wont attend, and why would they bring Ingird Sverre Magnus is still breastfed so it makes sense to bring him

Then they say Queen Beatrix of Belgium will come (as we know they have Queensday in the netherlands those days)

Juan Carlos, Sofia and Felipe (nothing about Letizia and why not Leonor when the danes are brining the total package)

Willem Alexander will come (without Maxima) again makes no sense

All in all it seems the expressen jounralist must have been drunk making this list and I doubt it is anything official, it seems more like name all the royal I know in Europe

http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=561783

[Yennie]

Sounds weird... I guess we just have to wait for the official guestlist :)

About the Danes; perhaps they have the same "rule" as the swedes. As long as the King/crownprincess can be back in the country within a couple of hours (= It takes 2 hours top to get from Stockholm to Copenhagen) its ok for the whole family to be out of the country

[Daneborn]

Oh Larzen, did you HAVE to spoil the party by your critical nitpicking ??

I was enjoying the thought of all these royals at one place. (Oh no, the perfect occasion for evil, republican people to throw a bomb )

Queen of Belgium, well she could have been if the Netherlands weren't split.

I guess we just have to wait for a more official guest list to be published.

If Leonor and Letizia and also Maxima and the girls stay at home it makes sense. But Mary and Frederik without Christian are supposed to attend ??

Is the poor bugger on the bottle already

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Larzen

Then they say Queen Beatrix of Belgium will come (as we know they have Queensday in the netherlands those days)

Queen Beatrix had Queen's Day when Carl Gustaf turned 50 as well, but she arrived in Sweden after having taken part in the celebrations in The Netherlands first. So it's not impossible that she will come, she did the last time.

But I agree with you, I think that Expressen's list is mostly speculations. The official gueslist, if there will be one released, will probably not be made public until a few days around King Carl Gustaf's birthday