16th May, 1980: Swedish State visit to France (President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing) - return dinner at the Hôtel de Marigny:
10th April, 2000: French State visit to Sweden (President: Jacques Chirac) - State dinner at Stockholm's Royal Palace:
2nd December, 2014: Swedish State visit to France (President: François Hollande) - State dinner at the Palais de l'Elysée:
30th January, 2024: French State visit to Sweden (President: Emmanuel Macron) - State dinner at Stockholm's Royal Palace:
An exception was the State visit to Sweden paid by President François Mitterrand on 16th May, 1984. On that occasion, instead of Empress Joséphine's Cameo parure, Queen Silvia chose Queen Sofia's tiara and other diamond jewels, without any specific French relevance. I have not found pictures of other members of the Royal family (Princess Lilian, Princess Christina...) to check if the cameos could have been worn anyway...:
A pity that Crown Princess Victoria did not wear the Leuchtenberg sapphires, which are a Napoleonic heirloom too, and which would have matched perfectly the blue sash of the French National Order of Merit (Victoria has never worn the full parure so far, but she wore the lesser elements -brooch, earrings and hairpins - of the parure for the Nobel ceremony in 2011).
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