The Awesome Swedish Royals!

The Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Prince Daniel, arrive at the 2012 Nobel Prize Ceremony.

Princess Madeleine of Sweden with the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Professor Shinya Yamanaka.

Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Philip of Sweden at the 2012 Nobel Prize Ceremony.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, photographed in Drottingholm Palace.

The Crown Princess Couple of Sweden with Prince Carl Philip, at the Royal Palace of Stockholm for the 2011 Nobel Prize dinner.

The Crown Princess with the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Brian K. Kobilka, and Speaker Per Westerberg.

The Swedish Royal Family at the Nobel Prize ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall.

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden with Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Theresa of Luxembourg, at The King's banquet for the 2011 Nobel Laureates.

Crown Princess Victoria and her brother, Prince Carl Philip.

Queen Silvia at the 2010 Noble Prize Ceremony.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her husband, Prince Daniel, and the 2010 Nobel Prize Ceremony.

King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Madeleine, and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

Queen Silvia of Sweden, wearing the full sapphire and diamond Leuchtenberg parure, at the 2010 Nobel Prize Ceremony.

Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI Gustaf at a Nobel Prize Ceremony.

Queen Silvia of Sweden

Queen Silvia of Sweden (née Silvia Renate Sommerlath; born 23 December 1943 in Heidelberg, Germany) with her husband, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Queen Silvia wearing the large diamond and sapphire  Leuchtenburg tiara.

Silvia all matching in a blue ball gown and diamond and sapphire jewelry. She is pictured with the King.

Silvia all decked out in full ceremonial dress, with the Danish white-enameled elephant pendant around her neck.

Silvia seems to wear the sapphire parure the most often.

Royal Weddings Revisited

Crown Princess Letizia and Crown Prince Felipe of Spain on their wedding day, 22 May 2004 in the Cathedral Santa María la Real de la Almudena in Madrid

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark on her wedding day, 14 May 2004 in Copenhagen Cathedral, in Copenhagen.

Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco on their wedding day in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956.

Princess Marie of Denmark, wife of Prince Joachim, on her wedding day, 24 May 2008 in Møgeltønder Church.

Princess Martha Louise of Norway married Norwegian author Ari Behn on 24 May 2002 in Trondheim.

Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik were married on 10 June 1967 at the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen.

Queen Paola of Belgium on her wedding day in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 July 1959.

Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan in her super-fancy wedding dress, on 10 June 1993.

Queen Silvia and King Carl XVI Gustav on their wedding day, 19 June 1976, in Stockholm Cathedral ("Storkyrkan Cathedral") in Stockholm.

The Royal Swedish House of Bernadotte

A potrait of Princess Victoria of Sweden, from a French magazine, Point de Vue. She is wearing a large cut steel and gold tiara, which used to be worn often by Queen Silvia.

An engagement portrait of Prince Daniel and Princess Victoria.

Princess Victoria wearing a diamond spike tiara.

Princess Victoria at Drottningholm Palace, wearing a diamond spike tiara and a sparkling pink satin dress.

Princess Victoria in formal dress.

A postcard of the Royal family in traditional Swedish dress. I found this postcard in Granna, Sweden, and in fact, I did not find in difficult to find postcards of the royal family wherever I was in Sweden, whose people doesn't seem to hate their royal family, as it seems so many European countries do. Nowhere in Belgium or Scotland (except the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh) could I find Royal postcards.

I went crazy in Sweden and bought as many postcards of the royal family I could find. Stockholm was especially suited for this, and I often found inexpensive postcards that were 5 for US$1. 

A formal shot of the royal family. Crown Princess Victoria was married in 2010 to Daniel Westling, a former gym owner. Victoria's other two siblings, Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Philip, have yet to be married.

Swedish Royals

Crown Princess Victoria wearing a large flower button tiara with two rows of diamonds on the bottom.

Princess Victoria in a spike tiara which can also be worn as a necklace. Every royal family owns at least a couple of spike tiaras, which are based on the Russian Fringe, or Kokoshnik.

Princess Victoria wearing her large and impressive steel and gold tiara, which she first started wearing only a couple of years ago.

Victoria at a Nobel Prize ceremony.

Victoria at a Nobel Prize ceremony.

A happier, more recent picture of the Crown Princess, wearing the diamond spike tiara.

Pink seems to be the Princess' preferred color, and she wears it well.

Victoria at another Nobel ceremony.

Victoria and Daniel on their wedding day. Victoria is wearing the cameo tiara that her mother, Queen Silvia, wore on her own wedding.

Victoria, Carl Philip, and Madeleine in full ceremony dress.

Victoria's wearing of jewelry has matured through the years, and the pieces have become more sophisticated. Here she is pictured wearing a double diamond headband, which she wore when she was younger.

The Swedish royals sweetly interchange the tiaras they wear with each other, and here Madeleine is wearing a large tiara that Queen Silvia used to always wear.

Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, Princess Victoria of Sweden, Princess Mary of Denmark.

Victoria wearing the spike tiara and a simple parure of diamonds.

Victoria on her wedding day. Over the years, she has suffered from depression. She  has dyslexia, and was bulimic in her youth, but since her engagement and marriage to Daniel Westling, she has never looked happier.