The Royal Family's Current Events - Part 4 (May - December 2005)

[GrandDuchess]

Princess Désirée & Baron Silfverschiöld, Peter Wallenberg, Princess Christina & husband Tord Magnusson, and Count Carl Johan & Countess Gunilla Bernadotte arrving for the private celebrations of Princess Lilian's 90th birthday 30 August 2005. The pictures are from Newscom.

[Dennism]

Originally Posted by GrandDuchess

A press release by the Royal Court today tells that there was a break-in at Ulriksdal Palace on the night to 24 August this year. Twenty culturally historic bronze pieces were stolen, the thieves had left when police and guards arrived, alerted by the alarm. All of the bronze objects are made in Paris around 1820, and have originally belonged to Karl XIV Johan.

The objects stolen belong to the Bernadotteska Familjestifelserna (the Bernadotte Family Foundations), and are the private property of H.M. The King.

Rosendals Palace is one of Sweden’s foremost cultural historic environments from the beginning of the 1800’s, and the theft from the whole environment at the Palace means a significant loss for the country’s cultural heritage.

The press release (in Swedish) can be found here.

Ridiculous. With the loss of half of the archives at the Karolinska Institute, it makes one wonder if anybody is guarding and taking care of Sweden's treasures.

[Dennism]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...live237736.jpg

Looks good. Nice smile. Nice hair. The dress is okay. Not a fan of the glasses though. The Queen looks great.

[GrandDuchess]

Today the press writes about the activities of the Royal Family this fall, DN also mentions the new website, but says nothing of when exactly it will be launched.

* One incoming State Visit from Malaysia
* One outgoing State Visit to Australia
* The Crown Princess will be a trainee at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing, China, where she will also inaugurate a porcelain exhibition
* The Queen will inaugurate “The Children’s House” in Linköping, a place where children involved in police investigation will receive help and be questioned under calm circumstances
* The Queen will take part in several meetings with the Mentor Foundation
* The King and Queen will participate in the follow up of the film “In the Shadow of the Viloence” made by Save the Children
* The King will travel to Härnösand where he will inaugurate a plant that will produce heat for a pulp mill, and he will also do a trip along Höga Kusten
* The King will participate in a leadership seminar with the scouts, this year he celebrates 50 years as a scout
* The King will also inaugurate a “Norwegian” mall in the municipality of Årjäng
* The Queen will, as she usually does, award the prizes in DN’s Annual Pop Quiz Competition
*Prince Carl Philip will continue with his studies in graphic design, but will also go to Spain during the fall where he will attend the start of the Volvo Ocean Race
*Princess Madeleine will continue with history studies at Stockholm University


The article sources (in Swedish):
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.j...usRenderType=3
http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=431438

[rosalyn]

Did the royal couple go to their annual August car exhibit where the King is blindfolded driving the car?

[rchainho]

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?I...d4950b303f6d3a

Back to college for Sweden's young royals

[Yennie]

Originally Posted by rosalyn

Did the royal couple go to their annual August car exhibit where the King is blindfolded driving the car?

no, there was no "Svenska Kungsrallyt" event this year. Next one will take place in august 2006

[rosalyn]

Oh thanks, I thought it was every year.

[Gita]

Thank you for the article.:)

[Gita]

Sorry I meant tumbs up not down!

[Dennism]

That´s okay, Gita. Nifty of you to use one of the emoticons.

Yes, if we can have more photos of the King driving blindfolding, that would be great.

[mixer2002de]

Originally Posted by GrandDuchess

Maybe Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg and her colleagues at the Royal Court are not only occasionally reading Ritva's message board and website, but also here on The Royal Forums... And this time particularly mine, and others, rants and complaints about the Royal Court's lousy website - because I just found this (translated from Swedish):

From http://www.webupdate.se

"The Royal Court new client
2005-01-12 | Webupdate has received the prestigious assignments to build the Palace's (wrong expression there) new website. The assignment included design, navigation, contents and structure and it's a big acknowledgement for Webupdate's creative team. The technical implementation will be done by another part. The website wil be delievered for the summer."


Wohooo! Now my hopes are sky high, but I'll try to brace myself and calm down, so that I don't get too excited and then disappointed.

Nine months to redisign such a homepage? Must be quite a lot of work to do or quite a big change!

[Josefine]

we talked about that there was to be 3 incomming state visits this year
at least that was what the guide at stockholm castle said and that the guest apartments would be preperf for that but there is only 2 state visits so far the state visit from norway did not live at the guest apartment do you think we will see one more incomming state visit

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Josefine

we talked about that there was to be 3 incomming state visits this year
at least that was what the guide at stockholm castle said and that the guest apartments would be preperf for that but there is only 2 state visits so far the state visit from norway did not live at the guest apartment do you think we will see one more incomming state visit

No, I don't think so. Two incoming ones are quite a lot as it is, considering the kind of preparations it requires. After this one, the Royal Court will be busy with preparing the outgoing one to Australia.

[Yennie]

In this weeks Svensk Damtidning there´s an article and some photos from a party held by prince Carl Philip on Tullgarn last weekend
Victoria & Daniel, Madeleine & Jonas and many others was there...

[Lena]

Originally Posted by Yennie

I´ll see if I can scan the article later today!

This would be very much appreciated :)

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by Yennie

In this weeks Svensk Damtidning there´s an article and some photos from a party held by prince Carl Philip on Tullgarn last weekend
Victoria & Daniel, Madeleine & Jonas and many others was there....

ACJ said: Carl Philip was having a party for his friends, but there´s no special reason behind it (I bet SvD wanted it t be an engagement party or something like that :) )

I´ll see if I can scan the article later today!

Thanks Yennie, that would be very kind.

I read that article last night, and looked at the pictures. It was very nice to see the pics, and nice that Prince Carl Philip hosted a party at Tullgarn, which is otherwise a quite forgotten palace that they don't use very often (it's one of my favourite palaces, btw).

Daniel Westling is in one of the pictures, and I think he looks terrible! He stands next to an older man, has his hand in the pockets and still looks like the butterball, and if I might say so - he looks so sleazy pleased with himself... I think it's the most unflattering one I've ever seen of him.... And I think I saw a little belly on Mr Gym Owner under the shirt, cause he was leaning forward.

[Yennie]

Here´s the photos from the party!

from this weeks Svensk Damtidning

Victoria and Daniel

Closeup of Victoria

Carl Philip and a unknown girl

Jonas and Madeleine arrives