What a fantastic start King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Prince Carl Phlilip have had on their stay at the Olympic Games in Canada.
After arriving from a long haul flight their schedule started off with watching the Swedish curling ladies beat the Chinese team 6-4 late night Friday local time.
On Saturday they continued on to watch Anja Pärson, who had a scary crash just a few days ago and is suffering injuries while trying to stay on competing in what is believed to be her last Olympics, in the ladies Super-G. Pärson’s brave attempt to claim her 7th Olympic medal did not pull through. She ended on an 11th place after a small mistake early in the race, and afterwards said that she had problem with the feeling in her legs.
On the VIP stands the Royal Couple and the Prince met Prince Albert of Monaco and his girlfriend Charlene Wittstock.
Seated a little bit in front of them were also the German high aristocratic defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and his wife Stephanie, born Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen.
The royals stayed active on their seats, both the King and the Prince took photos and the King and Queen took turns looking through binoculars. (more…)
This past Wednesday brought a rare chance to see the whole Swedish Royal Family together when they appeared in public during a short ceremony to celebrate Prince Carl Philip’s 30th birthday.
Unlike the Crown Princess’ name days and birthdays and the King’s birthdays, the Queen’s, Prince’s and Princess Madeleine’s birthdays are only celebrated on their even “special” birthdays. Last time Prince Carl Philip’s birthday was celebrated officially was five years ago on his 25th. The King’s Queen’s and Crown Princess’ name days and birthdays are public flag days, the other’s are not. (more…)
Victoria & Daniel greeting Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson. Click on the picture to see pictures at ANP's site.
This afternoon King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden held a reception at the Royal Palace of Stockholm following the engagement of their daughter Crown Princess Victoria to Daniel Westling in February. The reception aimed at introducing Mr Westling to the official Sweden and the kind of people he will be meeting regularly in his future job as a member of the Royal Family. The Crown Princess’ brother Prince Carl Philip was also present, her younger sister Princess Madeleine was not. (more…)
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Prince Carl Philip of Sweden today launched his own series of silver cutlery made for Mema/GAB at a press meeting in the exclusive shop Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm. The shop, located on the posh address Strandvägen in Stockholm, stocks the best of Swedish design classics and new Scandinavian design and is a regular place of shopping for royals, wellborn and design enthusiasts with a thick wallet. It was in connection to launching their exhibition “Ett dukat bord” (“A set table”) that a short press meeting was held with Carl Philip who proudly presented his silver cutlery line, CPB 2091, to a group of special invitees. (more…)
There has been much speculation about where he will live during his studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Svensk Damtidning believes to have the answer as they this week report that Prince Carl Philip is staying with Baron Carl Johan Cees von Schwerin at Skarhult Castle outside Eslöv in Skåne County. The Baron’s family consists of his wife Alexandra, children Werner, 5, Isabella, 4, and Diana, 1 1/2. The Baron is a farmer and grows malt, peas and wheat on 900 hectares of land.
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one response There has been some slight confusions about the whereabouts of Prince Carl Philip in the last few months, both the media and the staff at the Royal Court’s Information and Press Department have come with different information at different times.
Last year court staff said that he would be studying free-standing courses at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences’ campus in Ultuna outside Uppsala, that was later confirmed to be the wrong information from them and instead the Prince has spent time following the farm work at his father’s Stenhammar estate in Södermanland County. After that information came from the Information and Press Department that Carl Philip would enrol in a two-year education in Agricultural and Rural Management at the same university’s campus in Alnarp in Skåne Country, enrolling in October 2009. Also that was later labelled as misinformation as it has now emerged that the Prince will indeed be studying at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp this year, but with the difference that he is only taking free-standing courses and started this past Monday (12th) already.
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no responses Hosted by the County Governor of Skåne, the King and Prince Carl Philip today visited the biogas plant owned by Swedish E.ON, Danish Bigadan and Swedish noble estate owner Rudolf Tornérhjelm at the the latter’s large Wrams Gunnarstorp Estate in Bjuv. They spent a half day studying the plant hosted by representatives from E.ON, Bigadan and Rudolf Tornérhjelm, looking at the model that produces biogas from organic waste.
During the press meeting in the courtyard of the estate (Prince Carl Philip chose not to be available to the media), King Carl Gustaf said that he is considering the possibility of producing biogas on a smaller scale on his own agricultural estate Stenhammar in Södermanland County.
- The dream is to find a technique that enables biogas production in a smaller scale suitable for smaller estates. We have gathered a lot of impressions and it’s a little bit more difficult than I had imagined, the King told Helsingborgs Dagblad.
The King also said that the world has woken up a little bit late to the environmental issue, but that things are finally starting to move. Everyone taking their own responsibility and the big international summits are all steps in the right direction. The various techniques available to for example cars can be something which is not easy to decide on, the King said that not even he or the Royal Court have chosen one direction yet but are rather testing cars driven on for example gas and ethanol.
According to the royal calendar, His Majesty and the Prince also visited The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp during the day.
More: picture here and a video (where you can also see Carl Philip pass by in the end of it) here.
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