HM Queen Silvia and HRH Princess Madeleine attended the gala held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Childhood Foundation USA yesterday evening in New York City.

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The mother-daughter duo arrived just after 6pm local time and made their entrance along the red-carpet at The Harvard Club on 35 West 44th Street in red and blue evening gowns, respectively. The two women were accompanied by Madeleine’s fiance, Jonas Bergström, who arrived with the pair but entered seperately.  The evening honoured the co-founder of the Foundation, Antonia Ax:son, and the former Secretary General of the Foundation, Gunilla von Arbin.

The World Childhood Foundation was formed by Queen Silvia in 1999, to “help the world’s most vulnerable children: sexually abused and exploited children, street children and institutionalised children, with special emphisis on girls and young mothers.” Childhood currently works with over 110 projects in 14 countries, and in the past ten years has donated around $40million to these projects.

The Royal Family attended a gala in Stockholm earlier this year to celebrate the anniversary. Click here to view the WCF thread at TRF.

JessRulz Swedish Royals Jonas Bergström, Princess Madeleine, Queen Silvia, United States of America, World Childhood Foundation

The engagement of Princess Madeleine and her fiance Jonas Bergstrom was announced this morning by the Royal Court. Later the newly engaged couple gave a press conference at the Soliden Palace at the island of Oland.

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You can find a video of the press conference here.
During the interview we got to know that Jonas proposed to Madeleine in Capri, on June 12th.
There has not been chosen a date for the wedding yet, but according to the Royal Court it will not take place before Crown Princess Victoria’s and Daniel Westling wedding or next year’s general election.
The wedding is expected to take place in Öland in late 2010 or early 2011.

30 years old Jonas Bergström and Princess Madeleine(27) met through mutual friends in the autumn of 2002. Jonas completed a law degree at Stockholm University in 2006. Currently he is working as a lawyer.
After the wedding Jonas Bergstrom’s title will be “Duke of Gastrikland”.

You can find many more pictures and news in this thread:
Engagement of Princess Madeleine & Jonas Bergström

Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Engagement, Jonas Bergström, Princess Madeleine

 It has been announced by the Swedish Court that Princess Madeleine is engaged to be married to her long-time boyfriend Jonas Bergström. After rumours of the engagement were published in some Swedish media outlets over the last few days, the news has become official with the announcement on the Swedish royal family website. It has been reported that the families of the couple had a celebratory dinner together on Sunday, ahead of the announcement. The wedding date has not yet been announced.

Princess Madeleine’s elder sister, Crown Princess Victoria, became engaged to her long-time boyfriend Daniel Westling earlier this year, and are set to marry on 19 June 2010. In contrast, their brother Prince Carl Philip has recently broken up with his long-term girlfriend Emma Pernald.

For more information about the engagement, see this thread.

Lucia-mia Swedish Royals Engagement, Jonas Bergström, Princess Madeleine