Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Princess Benedike of Denmark attended the International Horse show at Flyinge in Southern Sweden on Wednesday, November 04th 2009.
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Princess Madeleine just returned home from her month-long stay in New York.
Yesterday the Princess attended a large horse show. Among the participants in the show was also Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who competes in the World Cup in dressage. Nathalie is the daughter of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, who joined Madeleine.
The two Princesses arrived in a horse-drawn carriage in the large indoor riding school where the show was held.
You can find a gallery here.
Her_Majesty Danish Royals, German Royals, Swedish Royals Horses, Princess Benedikte, Princess Madeleine, Princess Nathalie, Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Sport
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
A suspicious package caused the bomb squad to decend on the World Childhood Foundation headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, October 14th.
The package, which was addressed to HRH Princess Madeleine, the youngest child of TM King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, was found to contain mix tapes, undergarments, a love letter to the Princess and a proposal – but no bomb.
Anika Sonnerberg, a spokeswoman for the royal court, spoke to the New York Post following the incident, confirming that all security protocol was followed with regards to the package. “The security scanned it as they always do with packages sent to the royal family. There was nothing dangerous in it,” she said.
A police investigation is currently underway, with the US State Department believed to have been called in to assist the NYPD in locating the package’s sender.
Princess Madeleine, who is on a month-long visit to New York to work with the Foundation, was not in the building at the time of the incident. Queen Silvia will join her daughter later this month for the Foundation’s 10th anniversary gala.
JessRulz Swedish Royals Princess Madeleine, Security, United States of America
Princess Madeleine of Sweden is on a visit to the United States of America for a whole month. She is going to stay there from September 28th to October 28th on behalf of the Wold Childhood Foundation.
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Queen Silvia is going to join the Princess later. The Queen is going to visit Washington from October 22nd to 23rd . She’ll also have several engagements in New York, including a gala dinner in New York to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her World Childhood Foundation on October 21th. Princess Madeleine will also attend this gala.
The Childhood Foundation was founded in 1999 by Queen Silvia with the aim to help the most marginalized children. In 2009 Childhood celebrates its’ 10th birthday!
Read more about the events in this thread:
The Swedish Royals and The World Childhood Foundation
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Princess Madeleine, Queen Silvia, United States of America, World Childhood Foundation
Queen Silvia and Princess Madeleine attended the seminar “Children and the world wide web”, organized by Silvia’s World Childhood Foundation, in Stockholm today. The seminar aimed to build a positive perspective. It also discussed how the internet can be used to reach and support children.
Click at the image to see it at svenskdam.se
Princess Madeleine will continue to step into her mother’s footsteps and get involved with the World Childhood Foundation.
Queen Silvia was co-founded this organization in 1999. Since 2006, Princess Madeleine also started to work for the organization. Last year she took the initiative to start C2G – Childhood 2nd Generation.
According to svenskdam.se, Madeleine is going to do a project visit to New York and San Francisco on Child Hood’s behalf in October.
Read more about the Swedish Royals and the WCF here.
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Princess Madeleine, Queen Silvia, World Childhood Foundation
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Today the Royal Family of Sweden attended the annual opening of the House of the Parliament in Stockholm. It was pened shorty after two o’clock in the afternoon. The men attended the opening in dark suits and ties, the women in dark dresses and hats. The Royal woman are always dressed in dark colours, in an intentional homage to the old court dress, which was worn until 1974 and was made of black velvet with white detailing.
The day started with a church service in the Stockholm Cathedral. At 1 o’clock the Army Music Corps played and the Grenadiers from the Life Guards paraded at the Parliament grounds. A folk dance danced inside the Parliament and folk musicians and music classes sung.
Around 2 o’clock King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, CP Victoria, Prince carl Phillip and Princess Madeleine arrived with a royal cortège. They were greeted by the Speaker of the Parliament. The King held a short speech and declared the Parliament open.
You can find information and pictures of the event in this thread.
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Carl XVI Gustaf, Parliament, Prince Carl Philip, Princess Madeleine, Princess Victoria, Queen Silvia
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.
Click at the picture to see it at Daylife
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
HRH Princess Madeleine was yesterday awarded 400,000€ in damages by the Court of Hamburg. The case was against German company the Klambt Group, which owns several tabloid magazines. Those relevant to this case were Frau mit Herz and Welt der Frau.
The Princess was awarded the money, which is believed to be going to a charitable organisation, for the false articles and stories the two magazines ran regarding the Princess’ love life, marriage plans and rumoured pregnancies; totaling 86 articles between 2000 and 2004. The Court delivered the verdict based on the violation of Princess Madeleine’s human rights. The amount set by the Court to be paid by Klambt Group is the highest ever in German history in such a case.
The Court did rule, however, that the magazines did not have to publish retractions or corrections on the false stories, as they were “no longer in the minds of the people.”
JessRulz Swedish Royals Germany, Legal Matters, Media, Princess Madeleine
As every year Crown Princess Victoria celebrated her birthday, the “Victoria Day”, at the Solliden Palace in Borghol. Her parents, King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia, and her fiancé Daniel Westling were also in attendance.
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This year’s celebrations were different compared to the usual ones. The Royal Watchers waited for hours with flowers in their hands to congratulate their Princess. Victoria received congratulations and little presents over an hour. She took the time to greet everyone and chat with people. Daniel was always close to his fiancé ,chatted and laughed with many people in the audience. The couple looked very happy; holding hands and smiling at each other.
Of course the engaged couple also posed with the Royal couple for a group photo.
In the evening the Swedish Royal family, this time also inclusing Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Phillip, and Crown Princess Victoria’s fiance Daniel Westling attended a concert in celebration of Victoria’s birthday. Princess Victoria and Queen Silvia both wore the Swedish National costumes for this event.
You can find an article about the birthday celebrations here.
A thread at TRF can be found here.
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Birthday, Carl XVI Gustaf, Concert, Daniel Westling, Prince Carl Philip, Princess Madeleine, Princess Victoria, Queen Silvia
