Sweden's Brazilian-German Queen Silvia has spoken candidly in a new book about Sweden and her loneliness in the Royal Palace during the first year of her marriage to King Carl XVI Gustaf 40 years ago.
Let's be honest, everyone wants to relive the past once in a while, and in moderation a little bit of nostalgia can be a lot of fun. This weekend there's plenty of the stuff to go round in Sweden. The Local picks out five of the best nostalgia-tinged events.
A pearl necklace that belonged to Josephine de Beauharnais, a 19th-century queen of Sweden, has been sold for $3.42 million at an auction in Switzerland.
As royalists around the world crow over the British babe, Swedish historians are hailing the Swedish queen who wore men's clothes in an exhibition dedicated to Queen Christina, once immortalized by Greta Garbo on the silver screen.
Sweden's Queen Silvia has resubmitted a press ethics complaint concerning the newspapers that chose to reproduce artwork that she found "insulting and hurtful" because it portrayed her scrubbing a Nazi swastika off the floor.
In The Local’s first installment of “Swedish YouTube Celebrities”, we chat with FreddeGredde – the musician who’s drawn in tens of millions of viewers (and some unusual fan mail) from around the world with his quirky and inventive talents.
Sweden's Royal Court has accused a photographer of "stalking" Queen Silvia after she was injured trying to avoid "obstinate" shutterbug during her current visit to New York.
With the announcement of the engagement between Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and boyfriend Daniel Westling, excitement is growing for Sweden’s first royal wedding in more than 30 years.
Queen Silvia wants to see current legislation to combat child pornography expanded. The queen has called for Sweden to follow the example set by neighbouring Denmark and Norway and make it illegal to look at child pornography.
Queen Silvia has leapt to her husband's defence after a prominent Swedish author ridiculed comments made in support of wolf hunting by King Carl Gustaf XVI, Aftonbladet reports.
