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Victoria about favorite Karl Johan diadem
In "Royal Jewellery" at SVT, Crown Princess Victoria tells for the first time openly about her strong relationship with - and her reverence for - the favorite Karl Johan diadem.
“Every piece of jewelry in the Swedish royal house carries a story, stories about love, power and politics. It is about women, women who tie Sweden's history with different countries around the world. Who were they?" This is how the program manager Sara Bull launches the Royal Jewellery series , which is currently being shown on SVT.
- I feel a huge respect for the jewelry. For all the people who carried them. What if the jewelry could speak! Tell us about everything they have "experienced", says Crown Princess Victoria.
One of the crown princess's absolute favorite jewellery is the so-called Karl Johan diadem. Or the Six Button Diadem as it is also called. The diadem is relatively new, but the origin is old.
The story behind the Karl Johan diadem
Oscar II was the last king to be crowned in Sweden. And notice his coronation crown. Do you recognize the rosettes? Yes exactly! These are the ones who today adorn the Karl Johan diadem, or the Six Button diadem.
- That diadem has a slightly different story, just because it is not made as a diadem from the beginning. The rosettes come from Lovisa Ulrika's time. It's staggering! It is only when you pair the jewellery with a person that you really understand how old they really are!, Crown Princess Victoria tells at SVT.
Lovisa Ulrika wore the rosettes as decoration in her hair and clothes. And after she had worn them, they were placed on the coronation crown, by Karl XIV Johan. In 1909, the rosettes were removed, at the initiative of Queen Victoria, but then fell into oblivion. The existing Karl Johan diadem, as we know it today, was created in 1976.
The first to wear the diadem, with the rosettes in its new form, was Princess Lilian. The diadem has also been worn by the Queen and by Princess Christina. But most of our crown princess!
- I'm getting a little touched! These jewellery has been around a lot! I think about the craft, and how the people have taken care of them, says the Crown Princess.
She also reveals a habit she has adopted. Something she always does when she comes home from a royal party!
- I have the habit of always looking at the jewellery, no matter how late I come home, and checking all the brackets so that nothing has fallen, Victoria says.
Victoria om favoritsmycket Karl Johan-diademet _ Svensk Dam