Swedish State Visit to Canada: October 24-28, 2006

[loving silvia and carl gustaf]

It might be a stupid question, but isn't the tiara which we assume the queen "borowed" from Madeleine infact the queen's own? didn't she get as a 10 year wedding-anniversary gift from the king?

[Boris]

It's not a stupid question at all since you are completely right. The tiara in question was a a 10th wedding anniversary gift to Queen Silvia indeed, so technically Princess Madeleine borrows it these days from her mother - not the other way around.
I think the best way to put it is that they share the tiara these days.
I should think that it's still the Queen's personal property, unless they already did a little something here in advance in order to avoid inheritance tax later on.

[SusanneSNS]

Does anyone know whether there were no photographers accompanying the royal couple on their state visit to the US and to Canada?
It seems that there are always photographers around Crown Princess Victoria on her trips abroad, but no longer with the king and the
queen. I would imagine that also the Swedish people are interested in pictures, especially of the gala events, however, only one photo
of the Ottawa reception was published by Royalcourt. What about the other occassions? Return gala and so on?

[ursulajohanna]

I agree with Susanne!

Why do not photographers with the royal couples visit in Canada?

Originally Posted by SusanneSNS

Does anyone know whether there were no photographers accompanying the royal couple on their state visit to the US and to Canada?
It seems that there are always photographers around Crown Princess Victoria on her trips abroad, but no longer with the king and the
queen. I would imagine that also the Swedish people are interested in pictures, especially of the gala events, however, only one photo
of the Ottawa reception was published by Royalcourt. What about the other occassions? Return gala and so on?

On 26th October the king and queen meet SWEA-organisation at MaRS Center in Toronto by Gala-celebration. Here a link to website with picture of the queen and women of SWEA:

http://www.sweatoronto.org/kungaparet.html