News  2008

Crown Princess presents Bertil Hult Prize

On 25 September, Crown Princess Victoria presented the "Bertil Hult Prize" to Norrtull School in Eksjö. The prize was...

King visits New York and Detroit

On Wednesday 24 September, The King began a five-day visit to the USA. The King was invited to events surrounding "The...

Crown Princess Victoria makes opening speech on “Brain Day"

On 24 September, Crown Princess Victoria opened the Brain Foundation´s education day, “Brain Day", at Uppsala Concert &...

Prince Carl Philip opens Swedish design exhibition in Hamburg

On 24 September, Prince Carl Philip opened the exhibition Design S/Swedish Design Award at the Hamburg Museum of...

Queen opens World Forum Against Drugs and Council of Europe´s children´s conference

On 8 September, The Queen opened the “World Forum Against Drugs" in Stockholm. Representatives from 82 different...

Crown Princess congratulates medallists

At a ceremony on 19 September at Hotel Scandic Anglais, Crown Princess Victoria congratulated the returning Paralympic...

King and Queen and The Crown Princess attend Synod

On Tuesday 23 September, The King and Queen and The Crown Princess attended the opening of the Synod in Uppsala.

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Crown Princess Victoria in Uppsala on the 60th anniversary of the death of Folke Bernadotte

On Wednesday 17 September, Crown Princess Victoria paid a visit to Uppsala to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the...

King opens Parliamentary Session

On 16 September, The King opened the Parliamentary Session according to tradition. All the members of the Royal Family...

Queen celebrates "Pensioners´ Day"

The 3 September marked the 10th anniversary of "Pensioners´ Day" on Ekerö. The Queen took the initiative in establishing...

Crown Princess attends Paralympics

Crown Princess Victoria is following events at the Paralympics in Beijing. On 10 September, she witnessed Jonas Jacobsson...

King visits Storuman

On Wednesday 3 September, The King opened Skellefteå Kraft´s new bioenergy plant in Storuman. The King was shown around...

Queen presents diploma to best Mayflower sellers

On 3 September, The Queen presented a diploma to the National Winner of the Mayflower Fundraising Competition — Karolina...

King visits Skärholmen district of Stockholm

On Thursday 4 September, The King visited the district of Skärholmen, just south of Stockholm. The King met residents,...

Crown Princess Victoria visits Abisko

On 12-14 August 2008, Crown Princess Victoria carried out a study visit to Abisko in Norrbotten, regarding the research...

Crown Princess presents “Swedish-American of the Year" Award

On 12 August, Crown PrincessVictoria presented the “Swedish-American of the Year" Award to Sweden ´s Consul-General in...

King and Queen visit the Olympic Games

The King and Queen were at the Olympic Games in China between 15 and 25 August, and attended the doubles tennis final,...

Crown Princess Victoria presents Junior Water Prize

On 19 August, Joyce Chair from the USA was presented with the Junior Water Prize by the Crown Princess.Joyce Chai was...

Crown Princess presents Stockholm Water Prize

On 21 August, Crown Princess Victoria presented the Stockholm Water Prize to John Anthony Allan for his “virtual water"...

Crown Princess visits Ministry of Defence

On 25 — 28 August, Crown Princess Victoria carried out a study visit to the Ministry of Defence in order to find out...

King presents Polar Music Prize

The King presented the Polar Music Prize to opera singer Renée Fleming and the pop group Pink Floyd at a ceremony at the...

Crown Princess presents this year´s Export Hermes Award

On 28 August, The Crown Princess presented the “Export Hermes" Award to companies Tobil Technology in Danderyd, and Cibes...