The Royal Palace of Stockholm, Stockholm


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Welcome to the Royal Palace
Palace architect Nicodemus Tessin younger gave the Royal Palace's two large stairwells in the eastern and western lengths a powerful design that was completed by Carl Hårleman. The two stairwells, together with the southern vault, were the interiors that Ticino declared he was most pleased with, even though he only saw them at the drawing stage. The color scheme of the stairwell is dominated by the red-brown limestone from Öland, the green marble from the balustrades from Kolmården and the painted marble imitation of the walls. The western staircase, here in the picture, is decorated with several sculptures, including John Börjeson's portrait bust of the palace architect Nicodemus Tessin younger from 1886. Here you can also see perspective paintings by Domenico Francia in the 1740s and ceilings by Julius Kronberg in the 1890s. The lantern groups seen in the picture are from the middle of the 18th century by Jacques Philippe Bouchardon after models by Carl Hårleman and Jean Eric Rehn. They are considered to be inspired by the lantern groups of Vienna's Belvedere and Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini's cupboards in St. Peter's Church.
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Exhibition at The Royal Armoury since 30 October
Manga Royals – Royal History, Manga Style
Can a Swedish king be a manga character? And what happens if you combine royal history with the art of manga? Meet Swedish royals as you’ve never seen them before – manga style!
Manga Royals_ Royal History, Manga Style - Livrustkammaren
Manga Royals - Livrustkammaren

The National Property Board Sweden SFV about the renovation of the Royal Palace

Now in November, the eighth stage in the renovation of the Royal Palace's facades has been completed. It is the central part of the western façade that is now finished. On this part of the façade, the nine relief medallions with the royal portraits at the top can now be seen again, and the ten beautiful caryatids, the five-meter-high female sculptures, look out over the outer courtyard again. The castle's new, warm pink color is also better visible now that the plastic over the middle part has been removed.
- It has been great, says Magnus Roos, project manager at the Swedish Property Agency. Despite the pandemic, we have managed everything according to plan and are in phase.
Now the renovation of the palace's southern length awaits towards Slottsbacken. In January – February next year, new scaffolding will be erected and work will begin again in March 2022. The ongoing facade restoration of Stockholm Palace is the largest in modern times and will be completed in 2050.
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The Hall of State at the Royal Palace, designed by architect Carl Hårleman after Tessin the Younger's drawings, is located in the palace's southern length. It was built for the county parliament and inaugurated in 1755. Here the parliament and the king gathered for votes and debates.
Despite the fact that the Riksdag moved to Riddarholmen in 1834, to the building we today call the Old Riksdag House, the Riksdag's opening was held in the Hall of State until 1974. Today it is used for concerts and official ceremonies. Maybe you recognize the beautiful table setting in picture two? The photo was taken in connection with the Crown Princess couple's wedding dinner in 2010.
At the palace, a large façade work has been going on for several years, and in recent days SFV has completed the eighth stage, the central part of the western façade. After the shelter has fallen and the scaffolding has been taken down, the newly restored relief medallions and karytids peek out again.
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The National Property Sweden takes you behind the scaffolding at the Royal Palace to show the craftsmanship that is going on during the facade work there - in both a historical and contemporary perspective.
 
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The western façade of the palace has been completely renovated!
The renovation of the Royal Palace's west façade was recently completed. Now you can see again the nine relief medallions with the royal portraits and the five meter high female sculptures, the caryatids, from the castle's outer courtyard.
The renovation work of the western façade has taken two years. The National Property Board's ongoing facade renovation of the palace is the largest in modern times and is expected to be completed in 2050.
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Photos of the Royal Palace at Instagram during the last few days.
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At social media of The Royal Palaces last Thursday

Favorite from the Royal Collections - Oskar II by Anders Zorn
Every Thursday for a few weeks to come, the Royal Palace's museum teachers will present their favorite objects from the Royal Collections. Museum teacher Per Sjödahl tells the story of the creation of a painting:
"Well, now you'll paint the old man." This is how the artist Anders Zorn is greeted by King Oskar II when he comes to the Royal Palace one winter day in 1898 to paint the king's portrait. Oskar II wants to be painted in the Life Guard's light blue uniform on horseback, but Anders Zorn is of a different opinion and replies that the portrait "should be painted but not by me". The king gets furious. Anders Zorn explains that if he now has a "chance" to paint his king, he intends to paint him as he knows him and he knows him "not as a soldier but as the patrom and practitioner of the arts and sciences". Oskar II softens and the portrait is painted, with the king sitting in his audience room in a costume with the seraphim band over his chest. At the battle, a rescue medal, which the king received for saving human lives in France, is the only award that found favor in Anders Zorn's eyes of all the orders and medals that Oskar II wanted to carry. The king was very pleased when the portrait was finished and embraced Anders Zorn several times.
The portrait can be seen in the Bernadotte Gallery at the Royal Palace.
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It's a great portrait.
 
The Adoration of the Kings
In one of the smaller rooms in the Guest Apartments at the Royal Palace hangs a painting entitled 'The Adoration of the Kings' made by the Flemish painter Frans Francken II in the early 17th century. The title is about the three wise men who find the baby Jesus thirteen days after Christmas.
Frans Francken II's (1581–1642) painting from 1615–1620, later ended up in Oskar I's (1799–1859) collection and after his death it was inherited by his youngest son Prince August (1831–1873) who lived at Haga Palace. Now it is back at the Royal Palace and hangs in one of the smaller rooms in the Guest Apartments.
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The Royal Palaces at its Instagram
Welcome to the Royal Palace. Karl XI's gallery is the palace's and the Swedish late Baroque's most magnificent room. Before the official dinners, it is set for about 170 guests at the long table which is decorated with Swedish, Austrian and French silver from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Hall of Mirrors in Versailles has served as a model for the interior of the room.
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Museum Tre Kronor, located in the cellar vaults of the Royal Palace, reopens on Saturday and is open daily until further notice. The museum tells the oldest history of the palace. Watch a film from the museum where curator Christian Buchberger tells about what the castle looked like in 1697, about the course of the fire and about the harsh sentence for the lack of fire protection…
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On May 7, 1697, the fire broke out at Tre Kronor Castle. Everyone escaped from the castle, but the material damage was extensive. The fire mainly destroyed the older part of the castle but also damaged the newly built north wing. A number of invaluable documents, books and manuscripts went up in flames when the National Archives and the library were ravaged by fire.
Curator Christian Buchberger tells, on site in Museum Tre Kronor, about what the castle looked like in 1697, about the course of the fire and about the verdict for the lack of fire protection. The fire chief had sent one of the guards on assignment and another guard left his post without permission.

At 15.20 on Saturday afternoon, the police received an alarm that a drone was flying over Stockholm city.
The drone went over the Royal Palace and was discovered by the Royal Guard. It is described to be two meters wide and "of military type". The Security Service SÄPO has been informed.
The police don't want to go further into how drones flew, but say that it went over the central parts of Stockholm.
- It is a violation of the Protection Act because the Head of State, the Government, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the central government are there. So there is a flight ban with drones, says police spokesman Ola Österling.
It is currently unclear how long the drone was in the air.
SÄPO doesn't want to go into further details about the incident at the Royal Palace.
- We are currently assisting the police authorities with intelligence gathering and several of our areas of activity are working on this issue. The police are conducting the preliminary investigation of the incident, but we are assisting them, says Karin Lutz, press secretary at SÄPO.
On Friday evening, drones were seen over the nuclear power plants in Forsmark and Oskarshamn. According to the police, the drone at Forsmark was of a "larger model" and could withstand the wind, which was strong in the area at the time.
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West entrance
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Entrance to the courtyard
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North entrance
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West staircase with The Wave and the Beach by Theodor Lundberg
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West staircase
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Statue of Venus by Johan Tobias Sergel in the Pillar Hall
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Statue of Apollo by Johan Tobias Sergel in the Pillar Hall
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Pillar Hall
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Vita Havet (White Sea Ball Room)
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Victoria Drawing Room
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Francesco Botticini, Portrait of Lorenzo Tornabuoni
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Portrait of Queen Sofia by Anders Zorn
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Karl XI's Gallery
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East staircase
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The Audience Chamber
Today, the Audience Chamber is used on ceremonial occasions and for suppers. A Riksdag supper is normally held after every election.
The Audience Chamber - Kungliga slotten

The Audience Chamber at the Royal Palace began to be used for audiences during Gustav III's time. The room was planned in the 1690s as a parade bed room for Charles XI, and was then called Spring.
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At Instagram of the Royal Palaces

The Cabinet Meeting Room at the Royal Palace is one of the palace rooms that is continuously used for the Head of State's assignment. Three to four times a year, the Councils of State are held here when the King, who is chairman, and the government exchange information on current state affairs.
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The Cabinet Meeting Room - Kungliga slotten

At Instagram of the Royal Palaces

Collections of rare and imaginative art objects were common at the established European courts during the 17th century and also for Hedvig Eleonora. The ideal was an art cabinet that summed up the world and God's mighty creation. For the queen, collection was an important and natural part of the princess's role. Hedvig Eleonora was not only a collector, she became the most significant builder of her time but it's a different story… Parts of the art collection, the so-called Treasury Collection (not to be confused with the national regalia in the Treasury) are displayed in stands in State Apartments' Guard's Hall at the Royal Palace. The collection has been expanded since Hedvig Eleonora's time, among others by Queen Lovisa Ulrika.
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Photos from the Royal Palace at Instagram of The Royal Gift Shops

"Unique color combinations that are both classic and feel modern."
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"Discover and be inspired by the splendor of colours at the Royal Palace. A beautiful pastel pink shade in one of the Bernadotte Apartments' audience rooms."
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The Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren) has been named Stockholm's favorite museum in 2022. The first prize was given in competition with 37 of Stockholm's largest museums and art galleries. The competition is made by the company Evimetrix and is based on 1,500 randomly selected Stockholmers who commented on their relationships and opinions about their museum visits.
- It feels incredibly fun that Livrustkammaren has become Stockholm's favorite museum in 2022. The pandemic of recent years has shown the importance of being a museum in many different ways. When we were forced to keep the museum closed, we instead offered a lot of digital activities, not least in social media where our work is given a lot of attention, says Malin Grundberg, museum director at Livrustkammaren.
Livrustkammaren är stockholmarnas favoritmuseum 2022! - Livrustkammaren

At Facebook of the Royal Palaces
"Welcome to the Treasury
»The first Swedish king Sveno and his father Magog (Noah's grandson)…«. This is how the explanatory text on the wallpaper's upper blue border begins. The wallpaper is from the suite »The history of the Swedish fairytale kings« and is probably woven after models by Dominicus ver Wilt, commissioned by Erik XIV in the 1560s. The stand in front shows Erik XIV's regalia from 1561, made in Stockholm by the Flemish goldsmith Cornelis ver Weiden. The crown is made of 23 carat gold, with pearls, emeralds, diamonds and rubies. The artistic design gives it a ranking in the European regalia stock. Around the crown ring are small female figures who personify the seven cardinal virtues: Justice, courage, wisdom, moderation, fidelity, hope and love.
The treasury, located in the Royal Palace's basement vault, is the place for the national regalia and is included in the Palace ticket."
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More from the Treasury
"A favorite from the royal collections; museum teacher Daniel Santell talks about Charles XI's silver baptismal font - "… as wid Kongl Barnens Döpelse always used".
In 1782, Gustav III's second son, the Duke of Småland, was baptized, and the preserved ceremonial document can tell: This silver baptismal font, which was first used at the baptism of the future Gustav III in 1746, can now be seen in the Royal Palace's southern basement - in the Treasury - which no one interested in history should miss. This jewel in the royal collections was in all probability designed by Nicodemus Tessin d.y. and was made by the French silversmith Francois Cousinet. The baptismal font was completed as early as 1707, but had been started as early as 1696 when it was thought that it would adorn the old castle's new castle church. However, the church, like the rest of the castle, became the prey of the flames the following year. The imported silver from Sumatra weighs 50 kg - the whole baptismal font weighs as much as 70 kg. It is therefore not surprising that at royal christenings - the baptismal font is still used today - you need four strong people to carry it to the Royal Chapel!"
Photos from king Carl Gustaf's and princess Estelle's christenings
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On 23rd April is Stockholm's Culture Night

Culture Night at the Royal Palace
What is the Palace like by night? There's music, history, art and grand rooms. You enter the Palace via the Museum Three Crowns and the five-metre thick defence wall from the 1200s.
On Stockholm's Culture Night, you can stroll through the Museum Three Crowns medieval arches, the Hall of State with Queen Kristina's silver throne and the Bernadotte Apartments as you admire the art and furnishings. Don't miss the Royal Chapel and the evening's concerts, including concert with Vox Archangeli.
Culture Night at the Royal Palace of Stockholm - Kungliga slotten
 
On Stockholm's Culture Night 23rd April, museum teacher Per Sjödahl and palace pedagogue Jonas Rosin presented at a live broadcast four rooms at the Royal Palace.
The Royal Palaces has put the presentations to its Youtube channel:

Follow our museum teacher Per Sjödahl into Gustav III's divan. An exclusive room that is almost never shown to the public. The divan atrium was created 1784-1786 for Gustav III and is a high-class work by Louis Masreliez.
Join our palace pedagogue Jonas Rosin in Lovisa Ulrika's dining room. A rococo-decorated place with dramatic events behind it. The dining room is still used today, including at the meetings of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affair and medal awards.
Follow our museum teacher Per Sjödahl into the King Carl XVI Gustaf's Jubilee Room. A room full of contrasts with the intention that it would represent the best of the interior design art of its time. The anniversary room was decorated for King Carl XVI Gustaf's 25th anniversary as regent in 1998.
Follow our palace pedagogue Jonas Rosin into the Hall of State. It is the Royal Palace's largest hall and once the center of power in Sweden. Here is the fantastic Silver Throne that was commissioned for Queen Kristina's coronation in 1650.
 
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The Friends of the Royal Armoury posted to its Facebook on 7th May:
"Many steps down into the Royal Palace's interior is Slottsarkivet (the Palace Archive) in partly medieval premises that survived when the castle Tre Kronor burned in 1697. We were fifteen interested members from the Friends of the Royal Armoury who were shown around the archive by the palace archivist Mats Hemström on Thursday afternoon.
The Palace Archive contains archives from the court and the royal castles. The Palace Archive itself was founded in 1893 and has been an archive depot under the Swedish National Archives since 1964, but many archives are much older than that. Ever since the 16th century, there have been documents from the dressing room, the utensil room, the armor room, the silver room, the courtyard, the wine cellar and the court stables. Photos Per Ahlander."
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At Instagram of the Royal Palaces
Where history meets the present
When the palace was new in the 18th century, it attracted attention in Europe and is today one of the Baroque brand buildings. Nicodemus Tessin the Younger had for many years studied architecture and horticulture on the continent, in France, Italy and England. Through the care of Queen Kristina, he was admitted as a student of Lorenzo Bernini and he was deeply impressed by the austere Baroque architecture in Rome. Upon returning home, he knew exactly what a modern palace would look like. Tessin's city plan, which was partly realized, was based on a large and dominant palace building.
Visitors to the Royal Palace not only take part in the lives that Sweden's rulers and their families lived here, but also in how Sweden in modern times has been governed, managed and developed.
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In the Royal collections there are two bureaus made by Christian Linning, one of the leading Rococo cabinetmakers in Sweden. These commodes have been in the collections since 1766, and recently been restored.
In september 1766, architect Carl Fredric Adelcrantz placed an order for a pair of commodes with the royal cabinetmaker Christian Linning. As the person responsible for interior design at the Swedish Royal court, Adelcrantz was readying palace living quarters for Prince Gustav (III) and Danish Princess Sofia Magdalena who were to be married in October that year. Built in Linning’s workshop at Köpmangatan 3, just 200 meters from the palace, these commodes have been part of the Royal collections since 1766.
Christian Linnings two commodes are on show in the State Apartments at the Royal Palace.
Caring for history and future - Kungliga slotten
 
Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) at its Instagram
At the Royal Palace, far down in the vaults, is the Palace Archives. Here there are traces from different times in the history of the Royal Palace.
It's worth a visit just to see the decor. The wall in the research hall is medieval, from the old castle Tre Kronor. There are also beautiful old brick floors.
In the archive there are two well-preserved tile stoves in green glaze from the 17th or 18th century (they are not in use...). We have been told that the chairs in the research hall are from the 18th century, although the upholstery is more recent.
More and more researchers are finding the archive, which is open on Tuesdays. The palace archivist and colleagues staff the archive. Here is an (unknown?) archive treasure - with documents about the court administration from the 16th century onwards. Some examples are the wine cellar, the cloakroom, the household utensils chamber, the court banquet, the royal palaces, the royal stables, ceremonies and subject collections - about, among other things, royal weddings, coronations, travels and baptisms.
There is also a fairly extensive collection of drawings, including about Djurgården and the royal palaces and surroundings.
The archive was opened in 1893, but the creation of the archive began many hundreds of years earlier. There have been archives in the palace since the Middle Ages. Since 1964, the National Archives has been responsible for managing and making the archive available.
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Climate art at the Royal Palace
The Royal Palace is part of the light festival Nobel Week Lights, which lights up Stockholm December 3-11. The southern vault of the Royal Palace will be the site of the artwork Gaia by Luke Jerram. In Greek mythology, Gaia is the earth personified, in Swedish Mother Earth. The globe, which measures seven meters in diameter, is created from images taken from NASA photographs of the Earth's surface. Artist Luke Jerram has been inspired by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for "its efforts to build and disseminate greater knowledge of human-caused climate change, and to lay the foundations for the actions needed to counteract such change". The artwork aims to inspire reverence for the planet we live on and encourage environmental awareness.
Photo: montage, Nobelweeklights.se
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At Youtube of The Royal Palaces
The film, which is also shown on site in Museum Tre Kronor, depicts how the castle building develops, from defensive castle to the Renaissance castle Tre Kronor, which was destroyed in a violent fire in 1697 and then the construction of today's Royal Palace.

King's Guards Battalion at its social media:
"End for Christmas in the Royal Chapel. Every year the Battalion has a Christmas prayer in the Royal Chapel at the Stockholm Palace. There, the regimental chaplain from the Lifeguard started the morning together with music from the Dragoon Music Corps. During the ceremony, battalion commander Camilla Sjöhlén gave a speech about the Life Guards, the King's Guard Battalion and its history. Subsequently, employed personnel were awarded and promoted. We wish you all a really nice and happy Christmas!"
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The Royal Palace and the New Year fireworks
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About the restoration of the White Sea Hall (Vita Havet) at Kulturvärden Magazine in September 2022. The work started in the end of 2021.
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The winner of the Nobel Week Lights photo competition 2022: Alexander Assal • @assal.fotograf
Nobel Week Lights Stockholm is an annual light festival that takes place during Nobel Week in December. Directly inspired by Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, works of art illuminate Stockholm's darkness. The works encourage new insights into Nobel laureates' research, lives and discoveries. In connection with the light festival, a photo competition is also organized where spectators have the opportunity to compete. The 2022 winner was photographer Alexander Assal, who won by a large margin with his atmospheric image of the artwork GAIA inside the Royal Palace. The artwork GAIA is created by Luke Jerram from England.
A big congratulations on the win Alexander! Tell us about your winning image.
I wanted to show Gaia, one of my favorite places during the Nobel Light Weeks. I love how the earth is framed by the Palace walls and stairs. I went there with my daughter Safiyyah and was there over 1 hour looking for compositions. I chose Africa on the map because that part of the globe looked the best and wasn't covered by too much cloud.
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Museum teacher Christian Buchberger shows a table clock that was given to Gustav III during his visit to Paris in 1784, by the city's Swedes.
The female figure is Svea pointing to the obelisk with the portraits of Gustav III, Gustav Vasa and Gustav II Adolf. It is surrounded by symbols of war, peace, victory and the prosperity of the nation.
The watchmaker was André Hessén, who came from Stora Tuna in Dalarna and made a career as a watchmaker in Paris.
You can see the clock up close in the exhibition "Vasa to Bernadotte, 1523 –1973 –2023. Culture in Service of the Realm".
 
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Culture Night at the Royal Palace, 22nd April
What is the Palace like by night? Take a stroll through history, art, grand rooms and music.
Take a stroll through magnificent Bernadotte Apartment, the Apartment of the Orders of Chivalry and the Hall of State. Meet the staff in historical costumes. Concerts in the Royal Chapel. Royal costume try out for children.
Culture Night at the Royal Palace of Stockholm - Kungliga slotten

The Royal Palaces published yesterday a video at its Youtube Channel
Follow us into the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace. Palace librarian Arvid Jakobsson talks about the dynasty library with its 100,000 books and collections held by the Bernadotte family.
Yesterday there was the Culture Night at the Royal Palace.
The oldest fashion event of the year
During this evening's Culture Night in the grand surroundings of the Royal Palace, you will meet around twenty historical kings and queens dressed in the status markers of their time. For 500 years, the Royal House has paid tribute to the creators of the fashion industry. During the 16th century, lustful glances were cast at Spain, during the 17th century, French fashion became the most sought after. Sometimes royalty were the creators themselves.
Sofia Magdalena (1746–1813), dress with pouches à la 1780s. Gustav III (1746–1792) wears the Swedish costume, a design of his own. The king dislikes luxury consumption of mainly French goods and wants to invest in Swedish craftsmanship. The king drew inspiration for the creation from the early 17th century and the time of Gustav II Adolf. Sessan Lovisa (1851–1926) wears a fashionable golden yellow debutante crinoline with a chic beta collar. Erik XIV (1533–1577) wears black, modern and Spanish, obvious elements are powder pants, knitted silk stockings and pubic cap. The two-piece beard trended in Northern Europe. Dowager Queen Desideria (1777–1860) wears the court dress with characteristic lattice sleeves. Add a trendy turban with high plumes.
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Photos of the new balcony at Instagram of the National Property Board
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CyrilVladisla said:
Is there any information on the tapestries in this room at the Royal Palace of Stockholm?
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The Meleager salon is used during state visits, when orders and other official gifts are exchanged in the room. The salon is decorated in a mixed style between Rococo and Gustavian style.
The name Meleager salon comes from the woven wallpaper on the walls. They were made in Brussels and were included in Ulrika Eleonora's dowry. They show motifs from the legend of Meleagros, also called Meleager.
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Video of the Royal Palace, outside only, filmed obviously on the National Day.
 
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