#House of Bernadotte

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Queen Silvia of Sweden, along with her 8 grandchildren, celebrate her 80th birthday with a cake and a bunch of beautiful smiles and laughs! December 23rd 2023 🤍

#they are so adorable!!! #💕🤍🫶 #swedish royal family #queen silvia #princess estelle #princess leonore #prince oscar #prince nicolas #prince alexander #prince gabriel #prince julian #princess adrienne #december 23 #2023 #house of bernadotte #swerf #gifset #my gifset #my gif #my gifs #my edit

[krasivaa]

ᴀ ᴄᴜᴛᴇ ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏ sʜᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴄʜʀɪsᴛɪᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇss ɪɴɢʀɪᴅ ᴏғ sᴡᴇᴅᴇɴ, 𝟻ᴛʜ ᴍᴀʏ 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶. ʜᴇʀ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ, ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇss ᴍᴀʀɢᴀʀᴇᴛ ᴏғ ᴄᴏɴɴᴀᴜɢʜᴛ, ʜᴏʟᴅs ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ɪɴɢʀɪᴅ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʜᴇʀ ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀs, ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ɢᴜsᴛᴀғ ᴀᴅᴏʟғ, ᴅᴜᴋᴇ ᴏғ ᴠäsᴛᴇʀʙᴏᴛᴛᴇɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ sɪɢᴠᴀʀᴅ ᴀʀᴇ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ sɪᴅᴇ.

𝙶𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚏 𝙰𝚍𝚘𝚕𝚏 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚂𝚠𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚕 𝚇𝚅𝙸 𝙶��𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚏, 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 (𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝟷𝟺𝚝𝚑 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢) 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝙸 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎-𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎, 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚜!

~~~˚ʚ♡ɞ˚~~~

~~~𓆩♡𓆪~~~

#princess ingrid of sweden #queen ingrid of denmark #prince gustaf adolf #prince sigvard #princess margaret of connaught #crown princess margaret of sweden #king carl xvi gustaf #queen margrethe ii #14th january 2024 ;( #swedish royal family #danish royal family #drf #swrf #bernadotte #house of bernadotte #glücksburg #house of glücksburg #queen anne-marie of greece #queen anne-marie

[royalbloopers]

#sweden #the netherlands #crown Princess Victoria #Swedish royal family #house of bernadotte #queen maxima #maxima zorreguieta #Dutch royal family #house of orange nassau #who wore it best

[tiny-librarian]

Dress that belonged to a young Princess Eugenie of Sweden, only daughter of Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg.

#Eugénie of Sweden #eugenie of sweden #swedish royal family #swedish monarchy #extant garments #house of bernadotte #long live the queue

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The First Official Gala Portrait of King Frederik X of Denmark and his Australian-born wife Queen Mary

The portrait, which shows the couple wearing the Order of the Elephant on chains, will be displayed in state institutions, including at Danish embassies and consulates around the world.  

Taken at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, it is the first photo of Mary wearing the crown jewels as queen since ascending the throne in January. 

In the portrait, Mary wears an emerald set with a tiara, necklace earrings, and a large broach. 

The set was designed by jeweller CM Weisshaupt and was a gift from Christian VIII to Queen Caroline Amalie, the Royal House states on its website. 

The set’s emeralds and diamonds are partly reused items from the jewellery collection of Christian VI’s Queen Sophie Magdalene and from older bracelets, combined with newly purchased stones, the Royal House website states.

Mary also wears a diamond miniature portrait of the king in a bow of Order of Dannebrog ribbon, in keeping with the tradition of female members of the royal family wearing a portrait of the sovereign.

25 April 2024

#King Frederik X of Denmark #Queen Mary of Denmark #Danish Royal Family #official gala portrait #Order of the Elephant #Christiansborg Palace #CM Weisshaupt #Christian VIII #Queen Caroline Amalie #Christian VI #Queen Sophie Magdalene #Order of Dannebrog #crown jewels #House of Glücksburg #House of Bernadotte #House of Monpezat

[roehenstart]

Prince Carl Philip.

#kingdom of sweden #sverige #house of bernadotte #prince carl philip #konungariket sverige

[dreamconsumer]

King Karl XVI Gustaf, by Nelson Shanks.

#nelson shanks #king karl xvi gustaf #house of bernadotte #kingdom of sweden #sverige

[everythingroyalty]

if jodie comer played desiree clary in movie

That's certainly a good lookalike fancast, anon 👍

Speaking of, they should definitely make a movie about Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and Désirée Clary. Why do they keep making Henry VIII movies when they could be making (what I'd call) Austerlitz: By principle and conviction? It's beyond me 🤷‍♀️

If you understand Danish, the podcast Det hemmeligeste af det hemmelige actually just made a banging episode about JBB and Folke Bernadotte.

#not huge on jodie but 🤷‍♀️ #who should play jbb #(and why should it be daniel auteuil) #and laetitia casta as désirée 🥵 #inquiring minds #announcement #re. fancast #house of bernadotte

[sophiebernadotte]

6 Jan. 1811 - Désirée Clary was introduced to the Swedish Royal Court at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. When her husband was named Crown Prince of Sweden, she initially thought this would be similar to the Ponte Corvo position - meaning just a pretty title but nothing concrete. She later admitted that she had never cared about any other country than France and knew nothing of foreign countries.

Désirée delayed her departure as much as she could and was frightened by the stories of her French servants, who tried to discourage her from leaving by saying that Sweden was a country close to the North Pole filled with Polar bears. The Swedish climate was reportedly a shock for her, and she hated the snow so much that she cried.

Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta described Désirée in her diary as good-hearted, generous and pleasant (when she chose to be) but also an immature “spoiled child” who hated all demands and could not handle any form of representation. She further described Désirée as “a French woman in every inch” who disliked and complained about everything which was not French, and “consequently, she is not liked.” Désirée herself said that the Swedish nobility had treated her as if they were made of ice: “Do not talk with me of Stockholm, I get a cold as soon as I hear the word.”

Photo: Portrait of Desideria as crown princess, dressed in the official court dress by Francois Gerard (oil on canvas, 1811, photo grabbed from the Royal Court's website).

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#swedish royal family #queen desideria #désirée clary #house of bernadotte #official portrait #swedish history #royal history #on this day #today in history

[archduchessofnowhere]

hello! speaking of eugène, do you know if sisi ever kept in touch with or referenced her beauharnais cousins, like the bernadottes or leuchtenbergs? do we know what she thought of them (if she did at all)?

Hello! This is something that I've also been wondering for a while. They did met sometimes with the Bernadottes, but I don't know if they treated each other as cousins. In Valerie's diary I found two mentions of them, first in 1885 in a letter of Franz Josef to Valerie about a visit of King Oscar II of Sweden (Josephine of Leuchtenberg's son and therefore Elisabeth and FJ's first cousin once removed). However I have no idea what the letter said because Richard Sexau, the guy that transcribed the diary in which the published edition is based off, decided to not transcribe it. The second mention is from 1886, when Valerie and Elisabeth were in Baden and met the Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden (future Gustaf V, and grandson of Josephine of Leuchteberg) and his wife Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Prince and Princess hanged out with them, Duchess Mathilde (Sisi's sister), and her daughter Maria Theresa "Mädi", whom apparently was close friends with Victoria (Valerie calls her "Mädi's beloved Viki" and also notes that she's very likeable). This is all I could find, but there probably is more.

I don't know about Elisabeth, but Archduke Max did kept contact with Empress Amelie of Brazil (Auguste and Eugène's daughter) even after Princess Maria Amelia (his fianceé) died. He visited her often, and I'm pretty sure they mentioned in each other's wills. Also I read in a biography of him that when he was Viceroy of Lombardy-Venice he tried to imitate Eugène, but I'm not sure how accurate this is.

About the rest of the Leuchtenbergs: Auguste, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg married Maria II of Portugal in 1834 but died shortly after without issue. His brother Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married Emperor Nicholas I's daughter Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna and moved to Russia, and for what I gathered eventually this branch loss all its connections to Bavaria. Eugénie (who was present at Sisi's birth and was one of her namesakes) married a prince of Hohenzollern; they visited Munich many times so maybe she met Sisi when she was more grown up, but she died in 1847 and had no children. And lastly Theodolinde, the youngest surviving daughter, married the future Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach, had four daughters and died in 1857. I know nothing more about this branch, but fun fact: Duke Wilhelm remarried and had a son, who later married Duchess Amelie in Bavaria, a niece of Empress Elisabeth.

#i would guess that the habsburgs did not treat the bernadottes as cousins because they were *gasps* protestants #but who knows maybe they did. no matter how intermarried your catholic dynasty is you WILL have a protestant cousin eventually #empress elisabeth of austria #archduchess marie valerie of austria #franz josef i of austria #empress amelie of brazil #maximilian i of mexico #oscar ii of sweden #gustaf v of sweden #queen victoria of sweden #house of bernadotte #house of beauharnais #asks

[pokadandelion]

King Oscar II Fredrik of Sweden (1829 - 1907)

#king oscar ii fredrik of sweden #swedish royal family #swedish history #house of bernadotte

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Princess Leonore of Sweden, Duchess of Gotland, and Prince Julian of Sweden, Duke of Halland, having fun with party toys, December 23rd 2022 💕🎉😝

#awwww 🥹 #this is our official new royal dynamic duo for 2023 🤣 #swedish royal family #princess leonore #prince julian #princess Leonore of sweden #Prince Julian of sweden #Duchess of gotland #duke of halland #royals being funny #swerf #december 23 #2023 #sweden #house of bernadotte #my gifs #my gifset #my gif #gifset #my edit #made by me

[krasivaa]

Blood is thicker than water

~☆~royal lookalikes~☆~

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her mother, Queen Silvia. -@abigaaal 💗🌺

@krasivaa's royal series

#requested #abigaaal #@abigaaal #bernadotte #house of bernadotte #crown princess victoria #queen silvia #royal lookalikes #royals #royal #swedish royal family #*mine #my collage #my edit #krasivaa's royal series #krasivaa's royal series-lookalikes

[royalbloopers]

King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Golden Jubilee 2023

#sweden #crown Princess Victoria #Swedish royal family #house of Bernadotte #funny faces #candid

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia (born 7 December 2003) is the heir to the Dutch throne and is the eldest of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima’s three daughters.

Unusually, the monarchy in The Netherlands has been predominantly female-led, with three Queens reigning in succession from 1890-2013, when Catharina-Amalia’s father became King, so she’s in good company historically.

Unlike her parents who have committed a handful of regrettable gaffes (including going on holiday to Greece during a Covid-19 lockdown), Catharina-Amalia seems to have her finger on the pulse of the nation.

Case in point:

She rejected her rights to a yearly royal allowance when she turned 18, ostensibly because as a student (she’s studying politics, psychology, law, and economics at the University of Amsterdam), she’s not a “working” royal but also because it felt wrong during a cost of living crisis.

Much like Prince William here, the Princess is keen to have a normal university experience and lived in shared housing with other students until she was threatened with kidnap by a criminal gang.

She also attended a public primary school and even worked in a beach bar in The Hague during her summer break.

Like many Gen Z-ers, she has spoken candidly about mental health, revealing she sometimes sees a therapist, and while making no direct comments about it, she was the focus of new legislation that means LGBTQIA+ royals would be able to marry anyone they chose without forfeiting their right to the throne.

The House of Orange is in need of good PR, as its popularity rankings have dropped in recent years, with Catharina-Amalia hopefully just the fresh face it needs.

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Princess Elisabeth (born 25 October 2001) will make history when she ascends to the throne as the country’s first Queen Regnant.

A decade before her birth, the primogeniture was altered to allow for female succession, and she will be the first monarch to benefit.

Had it not been changed, her younger brother, Prince Gabriel, would have been the next King.

The 22-year-old is the eldest daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde. She has a second younger brother, Prince Emmanuel.

She spent her formative years in Brussels, before attending “Hippie Hogwarts,” UWC Atlantic College in Wales.

After completing her education, she undertook a year of military training at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, following in the footsteps of other heirs to the throne.

She’s now studying at Lincoln’s College at Oxford University, where she has competed in the rowing team.

She’s a confident public speaker, having had lots of practice: her first speech was at the age of nine when she opened a children’s hospital named in her honour.

She’s also becoming increasingly recognised for her fashion choices, with reports of the “Elisabeth” effect in Belgium, where her fans rush out to buy what she’s wearing, drawing comparisons to our very own Princess of Wales.

In recent years, Belgium, like many other Western nations, has had to confront its colonial past.

How the Princess decides to acknowledge and apologise for Belgium’s part remains to be seen, but will be vital for how she’s viewed both at home and on the world stage.

Princess Leonor of Spain

The world has been gripped by so-called “Leonormania” in recent weeks, after the heir to the Spanish throne turned 18.

The eldest of King Felipe and Queen Letizia’s two daughters, Princess Leonor (born 31 October 2005) is fast-becoming a national obsession, with her every fashion choice (and potential boyfriend) documented and dissected.

Her rising public profile is in contrast to her closely guarded childhood, during which she made very few public appearances.

After attending primary school in Barcelona, she moved to Wales to complete her education at UWC Atlantic (the same school as Princess Elisabeth of Belgium), where she graduated earlier this year.

She is now enrolled in a military academy undergoing officer training, which will last for three years.

Ahead of her 18th birthday, she presented her inaugural Princess of Asturias Awards, managing to appear decidedly unstarstuck when meeting Hollywood icon Meryl Streep and Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

Much like her father, Leonor will be keen to distance herself from the fiscal scandals of her grandfather, the ex-King Juan Carlos, which also implicated her aunt and uncle, and have played out telenovela-style in Spain over the last decade.

She will do well instead to emulate her mother and grandmother, the beloved Queen Sofia, whose chic style she has already clearly inherited.

In terms of politics, one issue she may have to face head on is the rise of Catalan separatism – an issue that her father made a rare public statement against in 2020 – and which he has been widely criticised on.

Princess Victoria of Sweden (and Princess Estelle)

The 46-year-old Princess Victoria (born 14 July 1977) is another European royal who has benefitted from the modernisation of primogeniture.

In fact, she was second-in-line to the Swedish throne at birth and leapfrogged over her younger brother, Prince Carl Philip, upon the change in the constitution.

It caused something of a controversy at the time, as her father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, objected to the change – not because he didn’t want women to succeed but because of his sympathy towards his son, who was suddenly stripped of his Crown Prince status.

In Sweden, the monarch has even less of a role in public life than in the UK, and as such, King Carl XVI Gustaf has largely kept out of the spotlight.

However, similar to other royals of her generation, Victoria has been more candid about her personal life. She was open about her struggles with anorexia in the 1990s.

Speaking about her experience in 2002, she said:

“I, Victoria, didn’t exist. It felt like everything in my life and around me was controlled by others. The one thing I could control was the food I put in me.”

She leapt to the defence of her now-husband, personal trainer Daniel Westering, when the couple’s early relationship came under close scrutiny.

Princess Victoria’s 11-year-old daughter, Princess Estelle (born 23 February 2012), is next in line to the throne after her mother.

She has similarly benefitted from the change in the law, as she has a younger brother, Prince Oscar.

Commentary in the Swedish press questioned the appropriateness of their match, something which Victoria spoke out against.

#Future European Queens #European Royalty #Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands #The Netherlands #Dutch Royal Family #Princess Elisabeth of Belgium #Princess Leonor of Spain #Spanish Royal Family #Princess Victoria of Sweden #Princess Estelle of Sweden #Swedish Royal Family #House of Bernadotte #Belgian Royal Family #House of Bourbon #House of Orange-Nassau

[roehenstart]

H.S.H. Princess Louise of Battenberg, later Queen of Sweden (1889-1965) by Philip de László.

#Philip de László #Philip Alexius de László #konungariket sverige #drottning av sverige #house of bernadotte #kingdom of sweden #house of battenberg #house of mountbatten #queen of sweden #princess louise of battenberg