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
Today Queen Silvia of Sweden recieved the ‘Courage Prize’ in Bad Iburg, Germany.
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The Queen received the ‘Courage Prize’ for founding the ‘World Childhood Foundation’ in favour of abused and disadvantaged children in Bad Iburg the same day. The prize is endowed with 5,000 Euro. Silvia was awarded by Gerd Schoewing ; Chairman of the ‘Courage’ committee.
Earlier in the day more then 600 people gathered around the city hall, waving with Swedish and German flags, when the Queen of Sweden arrived to sign the golden book of the city.
The ‘Courage Prize’ is awarded since 1996. Queen Silvia is the 14th awardee. A thread about the Prize can be found here.
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Awards, Germany, Queen Silvia, World Childhood Foundation
Today Swedish King Carl Gustaf awarded the Spanish opera tenor and conductor Placido Domingo with the first Birgit Nilsson Prize, created by late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson. The Birgit Nilsson Prize was handed out during a ceremony at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm on October 13, 2009. Queen Silvia also attended the ceremony.
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Placido Domingo has performed in 130 different parts through his career and won the prize for his “unrivaled” contributions to the world of opera. In a very emotional speech, Domingo said it was “unbelievable” to stand on the stage where Nilsson had performed so many times. He called her “one of the greatest artists, if not the greatest.”
The prize is worth 1 million dollars and is one of the biggest prizes in classical music. The prize is to be awarded every second or third year ‘for outstanding achievement’ in the international field of opera, concert or oratorio. Birgit Nilsson died in December 2005 at age 87. She selected the Spanish tenor herself.
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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.
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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
Yesterday evening King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria attended the annual Polar Music Prize.
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This year’s winners of the Prize were José Antonio Abreu & El Sistema Citation and Peter Gabriel Citation. You can read something about the winners at the official homepage of the Polar Music Prize, which can be found here: Polar Music Prize 2009
After the ceremony a banquet was hosted at Grand Hotel.
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The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the producer and manager of ABBA. The prize was named after Anderson´s record label “Polar Music”.
Every year, Laureates from a wide range of countries, cultures and continents recieve the Prize in Stockholm from the hand of the King of Sweden.
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TM King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia have completed an official visit to neighbouring Finland, in celebration of the two countries’ division in 1809, following the Finnish War which saw Finland lost to the Tsar of Russia. This bicentennial was celebrated in both nations, with national committees set up to organise the events collectively known as “Märkesåret 1809″ in Sweden and “Finland 1809 – Kansakuntaa rakentamaan” in Finland.
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The King and Queen were invited by President Tarja Halonen, who greeted the Royal Couple at her official summer residence Kultaranta upon their arrival on August 25th. The President’s husband, Dr Pentti Arajärvi, was also on hand for the welcoming ceremony. The group then moved on to Turku, via the Kultaranta VIII (the Presidential yacht), for a lunch at Turku Castle. This was followed by a seminar at the Åbo Akademi University, where the Royal Couple had a chance to brush up on their knowledge of the 1809 war.
The party then continued to the STX shipyard, where a visit on board the Oasis of the Seas cruise liner was scheduled. This gave an opportunity for photographers to catch King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia in hardhats, and get a look inside the future largest cruise liner in the world. President Halonen hosted a private crayfish dinner at Kultaranta in the evening, which was also attended by the Finnish Minster for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Housing. Read more…
JessRulz Swedish Royals Carl XVI Gustaf, Finland, Official Visit, President Halonen, Queen Silvia
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
Today, July 12 2009, Sweden’s royal family received South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak with First Lady Kim Yoon-ok at Sollidens castle, on the island of Oeland.
Crown Princess Victoria’s fiancé Daniel Westling was also attending the event. It was his first official appearance after the kidney transplantation.
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Yesterday the South Korean Presidentvisited the small eco-friendly Swedish city Hammarby. Lee flew to Stockholm earlier in the day from Italy. There he attended the expanded summit of the G-8 and the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.
The trip to the Sweden is linked to Lee Myung-Bak’s plan to announce that his government will make green growth its new national development strategy.
The South Korean president is in Sweden for a 3-day trip. During his stay he will meet King Carl Gustaf and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
You can find more pictures and information in this thread.
Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Carl XVI Gustaf, Daniel Westling, President Lee, Princess Madeleine, Princess Victoria, Queen Silvia, South Korea
