Well, they did attend Queen Margrethe's 75th birthday. So there is hope.i hope that means this time felipe and letizia will attend, although i think it's highly unlikely and most likely that they send sofia.
Well, they did attend Queen Margrethe's 75th birthday. So there is hope.i hope that means this time felipe and letizia will attend, although i think it's highly unlikely and most likely that they send sofia.
But there wasn't the political instability in Spain then as there is now! King Felipe and Queen Letizia have not travelled away from Spain since the political crisis/negotiations started - as a matter of fact, their foreign trips have been cancelled.Well, they did attend Queen Margrethe's 75th birthday. So there is hope.
If there is still a political crisis in Spain on April 30, i don't think it is a good idea that Felipe and Letizia attends when they have recently cancelled a
State visit to UK.
Queen Sofia may attend or Spain may be represented by their ambassador.
@Lady Finn - "He told on how it is to be reviewed and subjected to cruelty, and how this can be felt". Is CG going to talk about his cheating scandal in this documentary?
How very interesting! I look forward to itSVT sends a new documentary about king Carl Gustaf on 28th April, done by Claes Elfsberg.
Claes Elfsberg was the reporter who interviewed king Carl Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath on their engagement day in March 1976. And now he has interviewed the king again. Elfsberg sent an inquiry about a documentary due to the king's 70th birthday to the court over a year ago. Finally the court said yes. Elfsberg tells that the program is now ready and he hasn't shown it to his bosses yet.
He hade three long interviews with the king and followed him behind the scenes during a working day.
Only a few people have known about TV project, and SVT has gone with it under a different project name - so that it would not leak out in advance. Elfsberg accompanied the king also on his travels, including on his private fishing trip.
The documentary is mostly of the king's work, not so much about privacy, explains Elfsberg who believes that what he has done is "quite unique".
- It is rare that a monarch allows a journalist to get as close as I have done. Every time we met, it became easier and easier for both of us to talk. He opened up quite a lot, and talked about the things he had not spoken about earlier. He told on how it is to be reviewed and subjected to cruelty, and how this can be felt, says Elfsberg.
The basic idea was to talk with the king about the monarch's role in Swedish society, on the developments that have taken place and how it is to be in public all the time.
- And the King is a typical 40's baby, he has no plans to stop working, says Elfsberg.
Kungens okända möten med SVT-stjärnan Claes Elfsberg _ Nyheter _ Expressen
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I read the comment is that he is addressing being scrutinized and having negative things said about him. The negative characterization that I see most about Carl Gustaf is that he is not all that smart and after that that he does not have a charismatic personality so maybe that is the "cruelty" he is addressing.
Lifelong exposure to the public is part of being born royal especially if you are the monarch or an heir. Social media has its downside along with being scrutinized and commented on by nabobs of negativism but royals have to accept that just like they accept rapturous adulation just for showing up somewhere, smiling and unveiling a plaque.The cruelty is the lifelong exposition to the public, from the very first moment he was born. The ever-increasing intrusion via social media, the continue and often unfair comments coming and going like tsunamis on twitter, whatsapp and the likes. The ever apparent wall of stretched arms holding a phone aimed at them. Every stretched arm possibly could something hold else than a phone... The completely false and made-up stories about the royal family and the Herculean task to fight those as the public will always think: "Hmmm... where is smoke, there is fire...".
I read the comment is that he is addressing being scrutinized and having negative things said about him. The negative characterization that I see most about Carl Gustaf is that he is not all that smart and after that that he does not have a charismatic personality so maybe that is the "cruelty" he is addressing.
King Carl Gustaf's reign has been marked my major constitutional reforms that fundamentally changed the framework under which the Swedish monarchy used to operate under his predecessors. namely:
- The adoption of the new Instrument of Government, which stripped the king of formal legislative and executive powers and reduced him to a purely ceremonial and advisory role;
- The adoption of the amended Act of Succession, which introduced equal primogeniture and also allowed non-dynastic/unequal marriages of royal princes and princesses, subject only to the consent of the government;
- The disestablishment of the Church of Sweden;
- The end of the public law status of the Swedish hereditary nobility.
IMHO, Carl Gustaf has done a superb job in "reinventing" the office of King in accordance with the new institutional framework that has emerged under his reign. In doing so, he managed to keep the monarchy a relevant institution in a reformed Swedish state where, otherwise, a republic might have looked like the natural next step.
its now on the Norwegian royal calendar.
Haakon and Mette-Marit will go with King Harald and Queen Sonja
" 4/30/2016 Anniversary
Their Majesties The King and Queen and Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess will be present at the commemoration of H. M. King Carl Gustafs 70th anniversary in Stockholm."
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Which royal guests come to the King's 70th birthday is not yet official. But a personal invitation has been sent to all the major European royal houses to come and celebrate Carl XVI Gustaf on his 70th birthday on 30 April.
- We will not go out in advance with some guests, says Thorgren.
When the royal guests will be known?
- We have planned to release the guest list on the King's birthday.
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Kung Carl XVI Gustaf fyller 70 år – så går firandet till _ Nyheter _ Expressen
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That's pretty late. Is that what they usually do or maybe this time is because of security reasons?
BilledBladet tells, that according to the communications department of the danish royal court Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary and Princess Benedikte attend at king Carl Gustaf's 70th birthday party.
Kronprinsesse Mary og kronprins Frederik fejrer den svenske konge _ BILLED-BLADET
The cover of Minnenas Journal (Journal of Memories), which has 70 photos of the King's life
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=a9bf7d501e46bd24b54eab71f54f7ecd&oe=57725815
Has he? I think he has been and is a walking disaster as monarch. And after seeing him in so many scandals, interviews and the way he speaks to people, then he strikes me as a pretty cold person.
This is not a criticism of the Swedish royal family. I think Victoria/Daniel are great, both as persons and in their roles. Silvia has been a great champion of children's rights, and I really liked Lilian.