King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia hosted tonight a State banquet at Stockholm's Royal Palace, in honour of French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, who are paying a two-day State visit to the Nordic Kingdom.
Good news: President Macron has - at last! - managed to get a real white-tie jacket, instead of the morning-suit jacket which he infamously donned in Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark...
Queen Silvia wore Empress Joséphine's Cameo Parure - a nice French touch in honour of her guests. I am a bit puzzled by the (IMHO) unfortunate clash of colours between her (otherwise beautiful) deep-purple dress and the red sash of the French Order of the Legion of honour.
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Cut-Steel Feather Tiara and the big opal and diamond brooch which she wore recently for the Nobel gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, wore her "usual" tiara, topped with pearls, and the Baden Pearl Drop Brooch.
As visible at the back of this picture, Princess Christina, Mrs Magnusson, was also present, but I can not identify which jewels she was wearing:
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia hosted tonight a State banquet at Stockholm's Royal Palace, in honour of French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, who are paying a two-day State visit to the Nordic Kingdom.
Good news: President Macron has - at last! - managed to get a real white-tie jacket, instead of the morning-suit jacket which he infamously donned in Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark...
Queen Silvia wore Empress Joséphine's Cameo Parure - a nice French touch in honour of her guests. I am a bit puzzled by the (IMHO) unfortunate clash of colours between her (otherwise beautiful) deep-purple dress and the red sash of the French Order of the Legion of honour.
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Cut-Steel Feather Tiara and the big opal and diamond brooch which she wore recently for the Nobel gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, wore her "usual" tiara, topped with pearls, and the Baden Pearl Drop Brooch.
As visible at the back of this picture, Princess Christina, Mrs Magnusson, was also present, but I can not identify which jewels she was wearing:
Princess Christina dore the beautiful aquamarine tiara of her mother.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia hosted tonight a State banquet at Stockholm's Royal Palace, in honour of French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, who are paying a two-day State visit to the Nordic Kingdom.
Good news: President Macron has - at last! - managed to get a real white-tie jacket, instead of the morning-suit jacket which he infamously donned in Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark...
Queen Silvia wore Empress Joséphine's Cameo Parure - a nice French touch in honour of her guests. I am a bit puzzled by the (IMHO) unfortunate clash of colours between her (otherwise beautiful) deep-purple dress and the red sash of the French Order of the Legion of honour.
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Cut-Steel Feather Tiara and the big opal and diamond brooch which she wore recently for the Nobel gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, wore her "usual" tiara, topped with pearls, and the Baden Pearl Drop Brooch.
As visible at the back of this picture, Princess Christina, Mrs Magnusson, was also present, but I can not identify which jewels she was wearing:
The Princess also wore a diamond rivière while - sadly - again - the younger generation chose not to wear any necklaces at all.
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She was wearing the aquamarine kokoshnik.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia hosted tonight a State banquet at Stockholm's Royal Palace, in honour of French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, who are paying a two-day State visit to the Nordic Kingdom.
Good news: President Macron has - at last! - managed to get a real white-tie jacket, instead of the morning-suit jacket which he infamously donned in Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark...
Queen Silvia wore Empress Joséphine's Cameo Parure - a nice French touch in honour of her guests. I am a bit puzzled by the (IMHO) unfortunate clash of colours between her (otherwise beautiful) deep-purple dress and the red sash of the French Order of the Legion of honour.
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Cut-Steel Feather Tiara and the big opal and diamond brooch which she wore recently for the Nobel gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, wore her "usual" tiara, topped with pearls, and the Baden Pearl Drop Brooch.
As visible at the back of this picture, Princess Christina, Mrs Magnusson, was also present, but I can not identify which jewels she was wearing:
Napoleonic Cut Steel Tiara: aren't these fern and oak leaves? Stunning combo btw: grey dress, cut steel tiara and opal brooch.
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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia hosted tonight a State banquet at Stockholm's Royal Palace, in honour of French President Emmanuel Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, who are paying a two-day State visit to the Nordic Kingdom.
Good news: President Macron has - at last! - managed to get a real white-tie jacket, instead of the morning-suit jacket which he infamously donned in Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark...
Queen Silvia wore Empress Joséphine's Cameo Parure - a nice French touch in honour of her guests. I am a bit puzzled by the (IMHO) unfortunate clash of colours between her (otherwise beautiful) deep-purple dress and the red sash of the French Order of the Legion of honour.
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Cut-Steel Feather Tiara and the big opal and diamond brooch which she wore recently for the Nobel gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, wore her "usual" tiara, topped with pearls, and the Baden Pearl Drop Brooch.
As visible at the back of this picture, Princess Christina, Mrs Magnusson, was also present, but I can not identify which jewels she was wearing:
The Cameo Parure, a firm favorite for French Swedish State visits
Due to the French origins of the Cameo Parure, made by French jeweller Nitot for Empress Joséphine of the French, wife of Napoleon I (and grandmother of Josefina of Leuchtenberg, Queen consort of Sweden), the Cameo parure has been an obvious and frequent choice of Queen Silvia for State visits from or to France:
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).
Re: The Cameo Parure, a firm favorite for French Swedish State visits
Thank you for those glittering flashback images on State Visits between Sweden and France in the reign of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Well, glittering if you disregard the dinner hosted by President Hollande. I remember being so disappointed when the images from the event came out. Though I have to give credit to the Queen for managing to still wear some of the pieces from that historical Cameo parure.
on January 30, 2024, 4:56 pm
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