May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Royals":
Society: 22 May 12
Princess Estelle, second in line to the Swedish throne, was baptized in the Royal Chapel in Stockholm as a host of European royals, government ministers, and family members looked on.
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Lifestyle: 22 May 12
Sweden's newest princess, Princess Estelle, is to be baptized in the Royal Chapel on Tuesday. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the baptism of Sweden's future head of state.
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Society: 21 May 12
Sweden's Royal Court has broken tradition by inviting Princess Madeleine's US banker boyfriend as well as the girlfriend of Prince Carl Philip’s to Princess Estelle's baptism on Tuesday.
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Society: 25 Apr 12
New figures show that Swedes have less confidence in the royal family than ever before, despite the recent wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel and the birth of Princess Estelle.
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 12
With Sweden still basking in the royal glow of the birth of Princess Estelle, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to a US academic who claims that his family, and not the “immigrant” Bernadottes, should be on Swedish throne.
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National: 22 Mar 12
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrive in Sweden shortly after lunch on Thursday, after spending a few days in Norway on their official trip to Scandinavia.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 12
In naming Sweden's newest princess Estelle, the Royal Family is trying to revive the legacy of Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish royal and diplomat who was assassinated in Israel, argues biographer Göran Burén.
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Society: 28 Feb 12
Philippa "Pippa" Middleton, sister-in-law to Britain's Prince William, is set to compete in Sweden’s annual Vasaloppet cross-country ski race in a bid to raise money to fight children’s hunger.
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Lifestyle: 24 Feb 12
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to a daughter in the early hours of Thursday morning. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding Sweden's first royal birth in more than three decades.
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National: 23 Feb 12
The first picture of Sweden's newest princess has been released, with the Royal Court publishing the image on its official Facebook page.
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Society: 23 Feb 12
Archbishop Anders Wejryd called the birth of the new princess a "joy" and expert on the Royals, Sten Hedman, said the new baby is "just what the doctor ordered" as the congratulations started rolling in from all over the country.
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Society: 20 Jan 12
Sweden's Queen Silvia was reportedly "shattered" following an investigative journalism report criticizing the findings of a probe meant to clear the air regarding her father's Nazi connections.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Dec 11
As 2011 draws to a close, The Local looks back at some of the stories that dominated headlines in Sweden in the past year.
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Lifestyle: 16 Dec 11
As the world awaits the impending release of the Hollywood version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”, The Local's Geoff Mortimore looks at whether the capital of the US film industry can accurately portray Sweden's dark underbelly.
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Lifestyle: 20 Oct 11
With a massive garden complete with play areas, woods and other parkland, Haga Palace isn’t a bad playground for the upcoming addition to the Swedish royal family, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
Sweden is home to hundreds of castles featuring tales of bloodthirsty royals, quirky millionaires, adult-rated films, and other untold secrets. Check out The Local's selection of some of the country's more memorable manors.
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National: 13 Oct 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia plan to join other Nordic royals in New York next week for a glittering ball and exhibition of Scandinavian art.
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Lifestyle: 30 Sep 11
The Local catches up with the new UK ambassador to Sweden, Paul Johnston, and has a quick chat about how he is finding his new posting in Stockholm.
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Society: 21 Aug 11
Sweden’s King and Queen did not receive the royal treatment last week when they were turned away from a busy German restaurant. The owner admits she failed to recognize the royal duo, but said she still wouldn't have let them in.
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National: 19 Aug 11
After Wednesday's news of Crown princess Victoria’s pregnancy, congratulations from King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were published on the Royal Court website on Thursday.
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Society: 2 Aug 11
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria is the most beautiful royal bride all time, outclassing other high-profile royals like Princess Diana, Kate Middleton, and Grace Kelly, a new survey has shown.
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Lifestyle: 5 Jun 11
June 6th is Sweden's National Day - but what is being celebrated, and how? The Local explains the essentials.
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Society: 28 May 11
Support for Sweden’s king has dropped rapidly in the wake of recent scandals, with a new poll indicating that less than half the population wants King Carl XVI Gustaf to remain on the throne.
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Society: 7 May 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf became the first Swedish monarch to visit the world's largest wooden church in Poland, a UNESCO site funded by the King's ancestors more than 300 years ago.
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Society: 29 Apr 11
Crown Princess Victoria and husband Daniel Westling made quite a splash when they arrived in London on Thursday, but the couple are not among the few who will attend all of Friday's wedding festivities.
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Society: 19 Apr 11
Sweden's Prince Carl Philip has been named at the head of list of "the top ten most beautiful royal men", while his sister Madeleine had to settle for seventh on the female equivalent.
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National: 3 Nov 10
Sweden is bracing for the release on Thursday of a controversial book detailing the private life of King Carl XVI Gustaf, including an alleged affair with a member of the band Army of Lovers.
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Politics: 31 Aug 10
Voters in the general election will be able to cast a vote for Princess Madeleine or Prince Daniel, thanks to a fringe party and a quirk in electoral law.
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National: 21 Jun 10
Prince Daniel's emotional speech at Saturday's wedding banquet has left Sweden’s media and large swathes of the population delighted with the latest addition to the royal family.
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Society: 20 Jun 10
Police, politicians and church leaders all remained caught up in the moment on Sunday after an emotional royal wedding day went off without a hitch.
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Society: 20 Jun 10
Sweden’s royal wedding has made a major mark on media outlets around the world, although its impact has been greatly diminished by a boycott on the part of three leading international news agencies.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria has got her Prince. In front of a crowd of thousands outside Stockholm’s Royal Palace following her marriage to Daniel Westling, she thanked the Swedish people for letting her marry the man she loves.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Mattias Frihammar, Ethnologist at Stockholm University, talks to Gabriel Stein about the Royal Wedding this Saturday, the irrational Swede and magic.
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Society: 19 Jun 10
Police expect some 250,000 people to take to the streets to catch a glimpse of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling when they leave Stockholm Cathedral in a carriage procession after their wedding on Saturday afternoon.
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Society: 19 Jun 10
Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling were treated to a star-studded gala performance on the eve of their wedding as a reunited Roxette brought the audience to its feet Stockholm at Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Society: 19 Jun 10
Support for Sweden's monarchy has dipped below 50 percent while a quarter if the population is opposed to the institution, according to a poll published a day before Crown Princess Victoria's wedding.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Jun 10
As the republican cause sharpens its rhetorical weapons, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson ponders why the self-proclaimed most modern country in the world is suffering a bout of introspection over its constitutional monarchy.
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Society: 17 Jun 10
Wedding fever has gripped Sweden this week amid frenzied last-minute preparations for Crown Princess Victoria's nuptials on Saturday with her former personal trainer Daniel Westling after more than eight years of courtship.
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National: 16 Jun 10
Sweden’s royal wedding is set to attract one of largest gathering of kings and queens seen in Europe for years, a guest list for Friday’s pre-wedding concert has revealed.
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National: 24 May 10
Some 500 foreign journalists have said they plan to come to Sweden to cover the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria to Daniel Westling next month.
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Lifestyle: 21 May 10
The King, Queen and their children might be the best-known members of the Swedish royal family, but there are numerous other Swedish princes and princesses - including the last surviving great-grandchild of Britain's Queen Victoria, writes Juan Navas.
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National: 10 May 10
Interest in Sweden’s royal palaces increased markedly last year, with the number of visitors rising by 25 percent.
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Lifestyle: 6 May 10
Traditionalists in Sweden might have preferred Crown Princess Victoria to marry a fellow royal, but her choice of Daniel Westling is very much in line with her European royal contemporaries, writes The Local's royal correspondent, Juan Navas.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Apr 10
With the Royal Wedding coming up, Juan Navas, an American former information secretary at the Royal Court, has joined The Local's team to give readers the inside track on events.
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Lifestyle: 27 Apr 10
Sweden's tabloids have until recently had a fairly respectful attitude to the royal family, but are times changing, asks The Local's Royal Correspondent, Juan Navas.
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Lifestyle: 23 Apr 10
The French Revolution was bad news for France's royal family, but Sweden's 200-year-old Bernadotte dynasty would not have existed without it, explains The Local's royal correspondent Juan Navas.
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Lifestyle: 17 Mar 10
The Year in Sweden - March: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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Society: 16 Mar 10
The Swedish Republican Association has called on the central bank to ditch the royals on the country's coins and bank notes in favour of majestic beasts and giants of science and literature.
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National: 21 Feb 10
Daniel Westling, fiancé of the Swedish Crown Princess, is participating in a comprehensive program to deepen his understanding about being a prince. He is marrying Crown Princess Victoria in June.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 10
With Sweden's royal wedding year now upon us, writer and commoner Allan Burnett hoists the flag for an influential group catering for the anti-monarchy needs of a large and flabbergasted minority.
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Society: 28 Dec 09
Daniel Westling, who is set to become Prince and Duke of Västergötaland when he marries Crown Princess Victoria next June, can now also add “hottest hick” of the year to his list of titles.
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National: 31 Oct 09
Daniel Westling, fiancé of Crown Princess Victoria, has received the swine flu vaccine after being placed in a high-risk group following a kidney transplant earlier this year. The rest of the Swedish Royal Family, however, has to wait patiently for the jab.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 09
Crown Princess Victoria joined the two other heirs to Scandinavia's thrones on Wednesday for a visit to Greenland to raise awareness of how the Arctic region has been affected by climate change.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Feb 09
The engagement of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling has underlined, rather surprisingly, that Sweden is still a society that divides along class lines, writes The Local's James Savage.
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National: 24 Feb 09
The engagement of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling is big news in Germany, where newspapers take a close interest in the activities of the Swedish royals.
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National: 24 Feb 09
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria has announced her engagement to Daniel Westling. The pair are to marry in the summer of 2010.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 09
Sweden's royals remain popular because they provide an invaluable link to the past, writes Gene Oberto, in response to an article critical of the country's constitutional monarchy.
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Society: 26 Jan 09
A Swedish chef who worked for a member of the British royal family was convicted last week for a drunken assault against a woman who tended to the royals' horses.
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Lifestyle: 25 Jul 08
Stockholm will turn itself into Europe’s semi-official gay capital at the end of this month, as the Europride festival hits town. Visitors will find a city that does gay in its own, understated way, James Savage reports.
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Science & Technology: 22 Jun 08
The heirs to the thrones of Sweden, Denmark and Norway have embarked on an expedition to Svalbard in the Arctic.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Jun 08
Are the ices of the Arctic north about to melt away for good? Rami Abdelrahman gets the views of a range of Swedish researchers.
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Society: 20 Jun 08
Crown Princess Victoria’s boyfriend Daniel Westling is moving to Drottningholm, the royal palace outside of Stockholm.
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National: 6 Jun 08
Sweden’s National Day is off to a hotter start than usual with temperatures set to rise up to 30 degrees across most parts of the country.
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Society: 23 May 08
The heirs to Scandinavia's thrones, including Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, will meet in Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in June as part of International Polar Year.
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Society: 20 May 08
Crown Princess Victoria has no need to worry about the cost for the taxpayer of an eventual wedding date with her boyfriend Daniel Westling, a new report has shown.
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National: 4 Jan 08
King Carl Gustaf wants to build guest cottages for his children near his house in northern Sweden.
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Society: 11 Dec 07
A gatecrasher dressed in coat and tails was removed from the Nobel Banquet after a television presenter revealed his secret.
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Society: 20 Nov 07
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrived Tuesday morning in Vienna for a three-day state visit to Austria.
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National: 20 Sep 07
The government is to grant more money to fund the Royal Family, Finance Minister Anders Borg has announced. Crown Princess Victoria is expected to cost more in the coming years, according to the palace.
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Politics: 18 Sep 07
King Carl XVI Gustaf called for more help for the world's poor when he attended the ceremonial opening the Swedish parliament on Tuesday.
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National: 17 Jul 07
Two journalists from tabloid Aftonbladet have been reported to the police after their boat allegedly crossed into an exclusion zone outside the Swedish royal family's summer palace on Sunday.
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National: 9 Jun 07
Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Saturday morning, kicking off the first ever Chinese state visit to Sweden. But despite the pleasantries, the president can expect protests on his trip.
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National: 6 Jun 07
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine threw open the doors to the Royal Palace's courtyard at 10am on the dot on Wednesday, welcoming the general public inside to celebrate Sweden's National Day.
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Society: 22 May 07
The Emperor and Empress of Japan stopped off at botanical gardens, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a natural history museum as part of their visit to Stockholm.
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National: 11 May 07
A Swedish musician caused consternation on Thursday when he launched a scathing attack on Danish immigration policy in front of Denmark's Queen Margrethe and the Swedish royals.
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National: 9 May 07
Sweden's King Carl Gustaf, Queen Siliva and Crown Princess Victoria are in Denmark for the first state visit to the neighbouring country for 32 years, in a trip that it is hoped will underline the links over Öresund.
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National: 30 Apr 07
Thousands of wellwishers gathered outside Stockholm's Royal Palace on Monday to mark King Carl XVI Gustaf's 61st birthday. Tourists and Swedish families were there to wish him a happy birthday.
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Politics: 20 Apr 07
Swedes have more confidence in national institutions, with the monarchy recovering support. People have a favourable view of the health service, but unions and the EU fare badly.
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Business & Money: 13 Apr 07
The Swedish royals have beaten off accusations of illegally trading on the good name of an Italian underwear maker.
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National: 28 Mar 07
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden have been taking in the Japanese countryside on the third day of their state visit. The royal couple have now been joined in Tokyo by Carl Bildt.
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National: 25 Mar 07
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have begun their almost week-long state visit to Japan - on the same day that an earthquake struck off the Honshu coast.
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Lifestyle: 12 Mar 07
She used to be known as the party princess, but tabloid favourite Princess Madeleine is settling down to serious royal business these days.
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Politics: 12 Feb 07
As part of a campaign to replace the monarchy with a republic, politician Gudrun Schyman suggests replacing the king's head with that of Pippi Longstocking on Swedish coins.
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National: 29 Dec 06
Who do Swedes most admire? Royals, sports personalities and comedians are all in evidence on the nation's top ten lists - but Swedes reserve greatest admiration for their political leaders.
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Lifestyle: 19 Dec 06
Many foreigners think Swedish humour is as amusing as Björn Borg - but there's a rich seam of ribaldry below the surface. Christine Demsteader looks at what makes Sweden laugh.
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National: 3 Nov 06
A group of Liberal MPs have proposed a motion to remove the king as Sweden's head of state. The current system is outdated and undemocratic, they argue.
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National: 14 Oct 06
US President George W. Bush will welcome Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to Washington on October 23rd, the White House has announced.
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National: 26 Sep 06
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden will visit Canada from October 24th to 28th, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Monday.
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Society: 25 Jul 06
A royal house rumoured to have been earmarked as a marital home for Crown Princess Victoria has been rented to an advertising executive. Victoria was never going to live there, the palace says.
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National: 18 Jul 06
Sweden's king and queen sailed into Canton on Tuesday aboard the ship "Götheborg," beginning the first visit to China by Swedish royals since 1981.
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National: 15 Jul 06
A large crowd gathers at the royals' summer palace on Öland to celebrate the Crown Princess's 29th birthday. For the first time the princess's boyfriend, Daniel Westling, was also there.
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National: 12 Jun 06
The royal household spent 12 million kronor on travel and official entertaining in 2005, according to accounts released on Monday. The king received 23 ambassadors and held 3 banquets.
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National: 28 May 06
Sweden's King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia are expected to travel to Turkey on Monday for a five-day official visit at the invitation of Turkish President.
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National: 5 Apr 06
Jokes about marital indiscretion aside, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf is seriously popular. Now a new book explains why, with no formal power, the Swedish monarchy is enjoying 80 percent approval ratings.
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National: 26 Jan 06
After fierce criticism from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation as well the press, Sweden's royal family has decided to sell its shares in the Brazilian forestry company Aracruz.
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National: 11 Dec 05
Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The theme of Saturday's Nobel banquet was 'Nordic' and Sweden's royal family glittered among the intellectual elite. The evening also provided a brief respite for beleaguered foreign minister Laila Freivalds.
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National: 7 Nov 05
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia are flying the flag in Australia. And despite saying that he might raise controversial environmental issues, the Swedish king has so far held himself to diplomatic niceties.
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National: 22 Sep 05
Much excitement in royal circles as the recruitment of a new press officer rapidly leads to rumours that a royal wedding is imminent. Which it isn't, says the palace.
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Politics: 21 Sep 05
The king will have to account in future for the way he spends his money, according to proposals in the budget. But critics of the royals are sceptical over whether the new openness goes far enough.
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