King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia Current Events, Part 11: July 2018 -


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According to the calendar, the king and queen attended yesterday at the Assembly Evening.
The Royal Court Parish is a non-territorial parish in the Church of Sweden and consists of approximately 500 members. It is made up of the Royal Family, those who work or have worked at the Royal Court or the Royal Staff, and their families.
An assembly evening is held twice a year in the Bernadotte Library, which is regularly attended by The King and Queen who host the evening. A talk on a topical subject is always given on these occasions, and Court Organist Mary Ljungquist Hén arranges the music. The evening ends with an evening prayer.
 
Here's a video of the presentation of the Swedish Sports medals ceremony on Monday:

 
The King and queen gave today a reception to the American Swedish Institute, a non-profit educational organization and museum based in Minneapolis, USA.
The American Swedish Institute presented its congratulations to the King on the occasion of the celebration of the King's 50 years as Sweden's head of state. The institute also presented a gift that shows its appreciation for the work the Royal Couple has done to strengthen relations between Sweden and the United States.
Kungaparet gav mottagning för American Swedish Institute _ Kungahuset
 
King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia attended the inauguration of this year's Solliden exhibition. They had Brandie with them.
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Court website
The King and Queen inaugurated the exhibition "Jubilee exhibition in glass" which is displayed in the English park at Solliden Palace. The glass artists participating in the exhibition are Bertil Vallien, Åsa Jungnelius, Johan Röing, Ellen Ehk Åkesson and Markus Åkesson. Markus Åkesson also exhibits paintings in Stenpartiet.
Kungaparet invigde utställning på Solliden _ Kungahuset

The King's speech
H.M. Konungens tal vid invigningen av Sollidenutställningen _ Kungahuset

Nya bilder! Kungaparet på Solliden – tog med sig hunden _*Svensk Dam

Photos by SPA
 
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The King and Queen attended today the board meeting of The Royal Wedding Fund (Stiftelsen Kungaparets Bröllopsfond).
The Fund makes contributions to development projects and activities that aim to promote physical, cultural and artistic activities for children and young people with various disabilities.
 
Here's a video of last week's inauguration of this year's Solliden exhibition:

 
King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia attended this afternoon the annual meeting of the Friends of Waldemarsudde Association at Prins Eugen's Waldemarsudde.
They were welcomed by Fredrik Wersäll, the Marshall of the Realm, who is also the Chair of the Board of the Waldemarsudde Museum.
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Court website
On arrival at Waldemarsudde, the King and Queen visited Prince Eugen's grave to lay flowers.
The Royal Couple then attended the association's annual celebration in the Great Gallery Hall at Waldemarsudde.
Kungaparet vid Konst_närernas vänners årshögtid _ Kungahuset

The King was interviewed at Waldemarsudde about Zlatan's retirement from football.
Kungen om Zlatans besked_ Fantastisk karriär - Aftonbladet TV
 
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia attend this evening a dinner on the occasion of Stockholm City Hall's 100th anniversary.
The city of Stockholm pays attention to its City Hall with an anniversary dinner on June 22. Just as at the inauguration 100 years ago, the royal barge Vasaorden plays an important role.
The dinner is attended by guests consisting of representatives of Stockholm and the House of the Stockholmers, as well as Their Majesties the King and Queen. The royal couple arrives at the anniversary dinner and Stadshuskajen with Vasaorden.
Vasaorden departs with Their Majesties from Riddarholmen at 17.45 and arrives at the City Hall at 18.00.
Kungaslupen Vasaorden - Stockholms stad

Yesterday the staff had the dress rehearsal with Vasaorden, they rowed from Riddarholmen to the City Hall.
Practiced for months - for 15 minutes with the king
Here they are making the final preparations for the historic mission
22 selected soldiers and sailors have practiced for two months with a 100-year-old boat - to row the royal couple for 15 minutes.
An honor, says the commander of Vasaorden, Michael Langhard.
Har övat i månader – för en kvart med kungen

The King and Queen arrived with the royal barge Vasaorden to a dinner on the occasion of Stockholm City Hall's 100th anniversary. The weather is great, 26 degrees and the sun is shining.
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Better photos
Kungen och Silvias härliga festkväll – se nya bilderna! _*Svensk Dam

The royal court at its website
the King and Queen were guests of honor at the City of Stockholm's dinner to celebrate the City Hall's 100th anniversary. Stockholm City Hall was inaugurated by King Gustaf V on Midsummer Eve 1923.
The royal couple arrived at the City Hall Park with the royal barge Vasaorden, rowed by the 46th Rowing troop from The 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla. Vasaorden is also celebrating its centenary this weekend, the royal barge was used for the first time at the City Hall inauguration in 1923.
Kungaparet firade Stockholms stadshus 100-årsjubileum _ Kungahuset

The King's speech, he said among other things:
Today we are gathered here to celebrate Stockholm City Hall's 100th anniversary. This beautiful monument on the shore of Riddarfjärden is not just a municipal building for Stockholmers. City Hall is a building for all of us.
H.M. Konungens tal vid Stockholms stadshus 100‑årsjubileum _ Kungahuset

Videos
The King and Queen arriving with Vasaorden
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Arriving to the dinner
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Photos
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Lots of photos
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Gallery
Stadshuset 100-års festen CawaMedia
 
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Here's another video from yesterday (mixed with scenes of the Stockholm visit earlier that day):

 
The King and Queen attend today at the celebration of The Royal Guards 500 years at the Royal Palace.

The Armed Forces at its website
On Midsummer Day, Sweden celebrates 500 years of unbroken royal guard. The guard parade starts at Södermalm and marches along the same route that Gustav Vasa took exactly 500 years ago. In addition, a procession goes the same way. It is a staging of Vasa's entry into Stockholm.

Program
About an hour before the Royal Guards arrive at the Outer Courtyard, a procession will follow the same marching route, pass the Outer Courtyard and then enter towards Stortorget. The procession consists of approximately 250 people from civil associations and groups in period clothes and uniforms who will stage the procession in Stockholm.
Medborgarplatsen:
Around 11.30 a civil parade marches from Medborgarplatsen. March route: Götgatan, Slussbrogatan, Slussbron, Skeppsbron, Slottsbacken, Outer Courtyard, Inner Courtyard, Källargränd, Stortorget.
Around 12.15 The Royal Swedish Navy Band plays music.
Around 12.35 The Royal Guards force from the Life Guard marches in. History and presentation as well as visitation are carried out.
Around 12.50 the guard parade, consisting of The Royal Guards and The Royal Swedish Navy Band marches from Medborgarplatsen. March route: Götgatan, Slussbrogatan, Slussbron, Skeppsbron, Slottsbacken, Outer Courtyard.

The Royal Palace:
Around 12.14 His Majesty the King comes out onto the balcony facing the Outer Courtyard and overlooks the procession.
Around 12.15 Historical presentation is carried out. The civil procession passes the Outer and Inner Courtyards.
Around 12.40 Corps of Drums of the Royal Swedish Life Guards performs a demonstration program in the Outer Courtyard.
Around 12.50 the Life Guard's musketeer corps conducts a display program in the Outer Courtyard.
Around 13.10 His Majesty the King comes out into the Outer Courtyard and greets the current high guard.
Around 13.15 the guard parade with The Royal Court and Band enters the Outer Courtyard and carries out the Changing of the Royal Guard.
Delta i högvaktens 500-års jubileum - Försvarsmakten

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Photos from Instagram of the Life Guards
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Court website
After the ceremony, the Royal Couple attended a reception hosted by The Commandant General in Stockholm.
Kungaparet vid Högvaktens 500-års_jubileum _ Kungahuset

Video from Saturday
 
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There aren't that many 500 years celebration, so glad they made it into a big event.
 
 
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The King and Queen attended this morning the inauguration of the Themed Gardens exhibition at Solliden. In the Themed Gardens Exhibition 'Glazed 2023' (Inglasat 2023) four profiles (Bosse Rappne, Sara Bäckmo, Blomsterfrämjandet – Malin & Ulrika and Ulrika och Martin Mittbrodt) inspire visitors by decorating their greenhouses in their very own unique way.
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Court website
Kungen invigde idéträdgårdsutställningen Inglasat*2023 _ Kungahuset

The exhibition remains in the park for the season until October 1.
Idéträdgårdsutställningen - Inglasat 2023 - Sollidens Slott

Photos and videos from Saturday
"Two Queens in our greenhouse at Solliden - Margit & Silvia
Of course, I would have agreed to do the Themed garden also without a royal meeting, but it has been a great carrot for us to imagine this very thing.
Margit started the commercial garden in Kalvsvik with her husband Holger in the 50s. Next week she turns 96. And she has been working the entire time. A little less now, of course. The queen asked if she grew some strawberries at home, but granddaughter Katrin corrected and told about Margit's slightly more extensive work. A good portion of all the plants you buy from us at the commercial garden have passed through Margit's hands! Like a large part of those that grow in and around our greenhouse at Solliden.
On a normal day at work in the spring, one of the girls prepares Margit's workplace and carries in the heavy soil. We might pick up a few trays of plants, which might be fun to pry out of the greenhouses. Margit looks for pots...
It has absolutely been our highest wish that Margit will be able to meet the King and Queen. And I'm really glad that the Queen was so thoughtful and sat for a while and talked on the bench in the greenhouse It touched most of us! And even if the day was long (extra long perhaps for those approaching a hundred...) it gives us a big dose of energy, to continue cultivating and inspiring."
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Video from the Themed Gardens exhibition
 
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President Zelenskiy announced the visit at Telegram"
"Working visit with the First Lady to Sweden. Meetings with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, King Carl XVI, Queen Silvia, Speaker Andreas Norlén and heads of parliamentary parties. Extensive Ukrainian-Swedish negotiations. I would like to personally thank Sweden for supporting our struggle for freedom and independence."
https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/7446

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President Zelenskiy met prime minister Ulf Kristersson at the prime minister's summer residence in Harpsund in Flen.
First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Aleri's rehabilitation center in Solna. There she met the Prime Minister's wife Birgitta Ed, The Minister for Health Care Acko Ankarberg Johansson and Aleris CEO Sofia Palmquist.The clinic receives injured patients from all over the world.

President Zelenskiy and the First Lady arrived to Stenhammar Palace in Flen and met the King and Queen. Margareta Thorgren told to Expressen that the President and First Lady will stay about an hour.
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Court website
Ukrainas presidentpar mötte Kungaparet _ Kungahuset

The President's website
The President of Ukraine noted Sweden's support for Ukrainian citizens who were forced to seek temporary shelter in this country, escaping Russian aggression. Separately, the Ukrainian Head of State thanked their Royal Highnesses and the Royal Family of Sweden for their great attention to the needs of these people.
Audience of President and First Lady of Ukraine with Royal couple of Sweden took place — Official website of the President of Ukraine

Video from the visit
 
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia take today part in the traditional Swedish King's Rally on Öland. The Rally started at 10.00.
The King usually takes part in the Rally with the Volvo PV60 that he received in connection with his 50th birthday, but at this year's rally the layout is a little different.
Instead of driving only his Volvo PV60 as usually, this year the King will drive the rally's sections in different cars, which he owns or has owned. On the first leg towards northern Öland, he will see his Volvo P1800, one of his first cars. At the second leg, the King will drive the Porsche 911 Targa in which he and the queen were photographed in 1973 at a petrol station in Borgholm, which is the first known picture of the royal couple. The last leg the royal couple drive in an electric car, a Volvo C30 Electric from the early 2010s.
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The King and Queen in another car, the King's De Tomaso Pantera.
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The first station was Borgholm square where the participants got to drive radio-controlled cars.
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Photos of some cars
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As always, the Rally came to Solliden Palace. And during the afternoon, the King and Queen also visited the camel farmer Bengt Erlingsson's camel ranch in Ormöga, where they got to meet him, as well as the camel keeper Ronny Andersson and the camel Kataring.
Nya tjusiga bilderna från Kungsrallyt 2023! Så har du aldrig sett Silvia tidigare _*Svensk Dam

After 53 years: Today, the king drives his Volvo P1800 again
Here is the picture from 1969 where then Crown Prince Carl Gustaf receives a new Volvo P1800E from Volvo. After more than 50 years, the king will get to see his P1800 again.
- The king was very interested and asked questions about the car and wondered who owned it today, says Kjell Gehammar general of the Swedish King's Rally.
Efter 53 år_ Idag kör kungen sin Volvo P1800 igen _ Carup.se

Some photos from the rally
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Good photos from the King's Rally
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The King hands out the Prize to Eivor and Leif Carlsson, the winners of this year's rally.
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At the end of October, the King and Queen visited the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and its exhibition Trädgården (The Garden), which displays roughly 300 art and craft objects - paintings, drawings, sculpture and crafts - most of them from the National Museum's collections.
The King and Queen were shown by docent Magnus Olausson, the curator of the exhibition Trädgården.
Kungaparet på Nationalmuseum _ Kungahuset

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This evening the King and Queen attended at the Assembly Evening.
The Royal Court Parish is a non-territorial parish in the Church of Sweden and consists of approximately 500 members. It is made up of the Royal Family, those who work or have worked at the Royal Court or the Royal Staff, and their families.
An assembly evening is held twice a year in the Bernadotte Library. A talk on a topical subject is always given on these occasions, and Court Organist Mary Ljungquist Hén arranges the music. The evening ends with an evening prayer.
 
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia attended yesterday evening the delivery of Marcus Wallenberg Prize in Grand Hôtel.
The King delivered the Prize to Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard Haynes, USA for their original and groundbreaking development of the forest sector economic models TAMM and PAPYRUS and its extension to the global forest products model GFPM. Their work laid the foundation for the development of global forest sector modelling and numerous national and regional forest sector models from the 1980s and onwards.
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Court website
Kungen delade ut Marcus Wallenbergpriset _ Kungahuset

The 2023 Marcus Wallenberg Prize - MWP
 
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia had today a meeting with representatives from the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK): chairman Hans von Uthmann, senior advisor Gunilla Lindberg and sports director Peter Reinebo.
During the meeting, the King and Queen were informed about the preparations and expectations of the Swedish troops in this summer's Olympic Games in Paris.
Kungaparet i möte om olympiska spelen i Paris _ Kungahuset
 
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King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended this afternoon the opening of the exhibition "Korsvägar: Sverige – Ukraina genom 1000 år" ("Crossroads Sweden – Ukraine through 1000 years") at the Armémuseum in Stockholm. The King inaugurated the exhibition.
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The King and Queen were given a guided tour of the exhibition, which shows unique objects from Sweden and Ukraine - from the Viking Age to today's war zones. One of the objects in the exhibition is the first constitution of Ukraine.
A recorded speech from Ukrainian President Zelenskyi was shown. The ceremony ended with the King cutting a ribbon and declaring the exhibition open.
Kungen invigde utställning på Armémuseum _ Kungahuset
 
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