On November 10th Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf , his wife Silvia and Hamburg’s Mayor Ole von Beust were seen during a gala in Hamburg. Sweden’s Royal couple visited Germany to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Swedish chamber of commerce in Germany. A video can be seen here (in German).

One day later, on November 11th, Queen Silvia attended a congress of her “World Childhood Foundation” at the Swedish Embassy to Germany in Berlin. The Queen’s foundation supports Berlin-based organisations, like a street-working project, aiding children that are victims of sexual abuse.

Today Her Majesty attended an event in Essen in the Ruhr Area. There she attended an award ceremony that also marked the 10th anniversary of the World Childhood Foundation. The Queen watched a children’s rights quiz and handed out certificates to the winners.

Her_Majesty Swedish Royals Awards, Carl XVI Gustaf, Children, Germany, Queen Silvia, World Childhood Foundation

 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.

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

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.

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.

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

 Yesterday, in celebration of the World Childhood Foundation’s 10th anniversary, a concert was held at the Göteborg Opera House. King Carl XVI Gustav, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Madeleine all attended the red-carpet gala event.

The King and Queen led their two daughters up the red-carpet, with all three women dressed in eye-catching colours. The Queen and Crown Princess both wore gowns in shades of fuschia, while Princess Madeleine chose a white ruffle-tiered gown with a black belt to accentuate her blonde hair and tanned skin.

Amongst those performing for the royal guests, as well as various members of Swedish society and the public, were the Göteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus, the Göteborg Ballet and concert violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. The proceeds from the event’s ticket sales, which were around 1700 SEK, all went to the Foundation, which was founded by Queen Silvia in May 1999. Company Stena will also donate the same amount raised on the night to the Foundation.

The World Childhood Foundation focuses its help mainly on young girls, street children, young mothers and abused children, along with those children who are often overlooked and forgotten. From the Foundation’s website, “The mission of World Childhood Foundation is to defend the rights of the child and to promote better living conditions for vulnerable and exploited children at risk all over the world.”

More information about the anniversary events, and the Royal Family’s participation in the Foundation, can be found here.

JessRulz Swedish Royals Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Madeleine, Princess Victoria, Queen Silvia, World Childhood Foundation