Daniel Westling helped Victoria to get well from her eating disorder by training and they fell in love! It's all very sweet and she had the Swedish people behind her.
@@magnusnilsson9792 CXVIG is not subject to law, he is above it. Imagine the horror when Victoria Regina ascends, with the same privileges. (I am kidding, she is just the sweetest)
2:15 Calling the current family "the first king" seems a little bizarre. Early kings for a united Sweden were in the 1200s, basically Birger Jarl's family, Bjälboätten. And there were kings of Svealand (Sweden proper) before that.
Absolutely. Btw, I know that in the palace of Bjälboätten, or next to it, theres is a grave of an English Plantagenet princess, Philippa of England, who married one of the Swedish kings.
U ferget king Erik Segersäll First of United Sweden and daddy to Olof Skötkonung first kingy to mint coins in ol Sweden back when Sigtuna was the capital
This voiceover gets a lot of things wrong. I'd say that the Swedes prefer Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia to Chris O'Neill and has from the start. They weren't so much controversial as they were a bit entertaining for the gossip tabloids, but both are very well liked. And, like others have said, the King has no power to change any laws.
This is absolutely true. Alot of it probably comes from Chris being american. Not specifically american but NOT Swedish as it ended up moving our princess across the sea to another country. He is also a bit dramatic imo. Which is saying alot considering where Sofia came from. I was really skeptic of her in the beginning but she turned out fine.
I think the main reason there weren’t much opinion about princess Madeleine marrying Chris O’Neill was that no one really cared… Victoria and Carl Philip are much more interesting to the population! And I think he’s mostly disliked because of his actions and personality rather than his nationality (or that might just be me 😅).
As a Swede i love our King, he's amazing and hilarious haha.. And there's tons of hilarious memes out there with him that always puts a smile on your face, we really do have a good royal family and personally i like that they're somewhat flawed, it makes them relatable🤷♂
Yeah IKR! They are not much different from our typical swedish family. Pretty much the only difference is that they have the title of "royalty" which in this day and age means pretty much nothing.
100% The King is fakking great. I met him in perosn several times during my military service, he is the greatest guy. He just love having fun but he also have to keep his dignity in public so he always find ways to sneak off to do something he enjoy.
I'm Swedish and realized a few days ago that the queen of Denmark and the king of Sweden are cousins, and that the queen of Denmark speaks fluent Swedish.
All the European royal houses are closely related... much due to Victoria of Britain and Gustav Adolf of Sweden marrying their daughters into all of them. Queen Margerethe's mother was Ingrid of Sweden, the current King of Sweden's aunt, for example.
@@SteamboatW the Danish royals did the same - king Christian the 9th (1817-1898) was called the father-in-law of Europe Their children: King Frederik 8. of Denmark (1843-1912) Queen Alexandra of Great Britain (1844-1925) married Edvard the 7th King Georg 1. of Greece (1845-1913) Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (1847-1928) married zar Aleksandr the 3rd. Princess Thyra of Hannover (1853-1933), married crown prince Ernest Augustus
Margharetes mother was princess Ingrid of Sweden (who became queen of Denmark). As a little curiosiity I can mention that Margharete, and her son king Frederik X, have 124 lines of descendance from the Swedish king Gustav Vasa, according to "family trees", and the king in Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf likewise 91. Frederik X is the European monarch with most lines of descendance from Gustav Vasa, but as far as I know all royalties in Europe descend from Gustav Vasa (+ 150 000 Swedes, among them Carl Bildt and Magnus Uggla).
RUclips has a serious lack of good videos on the Swedish royal family, this one is filled with halftruths, exaggerations and so on (plus it’s quite dated since the family has grown even more since then) In Sweden we have quite a number of documentaries available(especially this year because of the king’s jubilee) but they’re all in Swedish with no option for English subtitles.
Yes, and it is also allways forgotten that the history of our royal family is in one way much longer than since 1818, because most of the women married into the Bernadotte family have been descended from older Swedish dynasties. The royal family descends from "ynglingaätten", Erikska ätten, Sverkerska ätten, Folkungaätten , Vasaätten, Pfalziska ätten and Holstein Gottorp as far as the family trees show. For example-when Oscar II wellcomed Friedrich I of Baden to Sweden, grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf and father of Victoriaa who was married to the future Gustav V, (and daughter in law to Oscar II) he said (and I think it was touching); "Your mothers country, your daughters country". Friedrichs mother was the princess Sofia Wilhelmina, daughter to Gustav IV Adolf and Fredrika. I love wnen our current crown princess Victoria wears the "Vasa-earrings" who had folowed Gustav IV Adolf and Fredrika abroad when they were exciled in 1809.
Our king Karl Gustav did not change any laws at all because he has no power. Queen Victoria was the paternal grandmother of the King of Sweden. The Swedish royal house is close to the British one. Fun fact: Princess Sofia (the one who posed with the snake) put on some scrubs and volunteered at a hospital during the pandemic.
Queen Victoria of Sweden (born 1862 in Karlsruhe, Germany, as Victoria of Baden) was paternal great-grandmother to the present king. Not grandmother, and she is(was) not Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
@@mattallen369det är inte drottning Victoria som är gammelmormor i flera led utan det som skriv Queen Victoria, kungens farmor är barnbarn till Queen Victoria.
@@Pillan74 OK ... då var det jag som inte förstod hur han menade... Kung Carl XVI Gustafs (biologiska) farmor var prinsessan Margareta, = Margaret av Connaught, vars farmor var drottning Victoria av Storbritannien, helt korrekt, medan drottning Victoria av Sverige var kung Carl XVI Gustafs farfars mor.😄...lite många Victorior att hålla reda på...
@@mattallen369 The British Queen Victoria was the paternal grandmother of Carl XVI Gustav. Carl Gustav and (the British) Queen Elisabeth II were fourth cousins.
@@olsa76 Well…add a couple of generations. The grandmother of king Carl XVI Gustaf was princess Margaret, born Margaret of Connaught, (she was British). She died before her husband became king. (Present king’s grandfather), she was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
The queen's mother was from Brazil, so she's half German, half Brazilian. And yes, they are related to the British royal family. The kings grandfather, King Gustavus VI. was married to princess Margareth of UK. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. When Margareth died, king Gustavus VI remarried Louise Mountbatten, sister to general Mountbatten who was a somewhat fatherly figure to prince Phillip. So there're some tight connections.
When the king was 16 he went on a sailing trip with prince Charles and princess Anne of England. I saw some photos. It looked very nice. Yes, they are distantly related to Queen Victoria of England. It’s their great great grandmother or similar. But also to Napoleon etc.
Greetings from Finland! You can visit the Royal Palace in Sweden, see the "treasure chamber," and the crown jewels. In fact, I visited the castle myself the summer before last.
Basically no one was against Prince Daniel or Princess Sofia marrying into the Royal family. Sweden had fell in love with Prince Carl-Philip long term girlfriend he had before Sofia, and we missed her when they broke up. I think the only scandal is the foreign media like to stir up scandals. Both Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia are hard working Royals, and have really stepped up. Prince Daniel was together with Crown Princess Victoria for many years before they got engaged, just as William and Catherine. Prince Daniel was sooo cheered on by the Swedish public and we couldn't wait for them to be official, and was over the moon when they got engaged and got married! Christophe O'Neil isn't as much liked, more tolerated. He is basically constantly grumpy, if he ever showes up at all. He doesn't seem supportive of Madeleine and acts like he looks down on anything Swedish or Royal. I really hope he makes her happy cause my impression of him isn't the best. He seems a bit disrespectful, so I really hope he is nicer person in private. He comes from a finance high society family, with an ambitious Austrian mother, who is best friend with Ivana Trump, and who's children (Chris's sisters) all married aristocratic men from old high nobility in UK and Austria. Mrs O'Neill is seen as mrs Trumps "personal social fixer". So he is not a "commoner", and he wanted to keep and expand his business empire and keep being a finance and business man, a role that isn't compatible with being a Royal.
the swedish government changed the rule about the first born being next in line. So their second child, a boy, carl Philip, was born crown prince but he lost that title to his older sister, victoria. And queen silvias mother was brazilian. Jean baptiste Bernadotte got adopted as a grown man by the then swedish king bc he had no children. Some details lacking in this clip.
Yes, and he didn't change the law about marrying commoners. The law was and is, marry without the Monarchs permission and you lose your place in the succession and your titles. He just changed the custom, no Bernadotte Monarch before him ever gave permission to marry a non-noble ( a policy instated I think by Carl XIV Gustaf).
Jean baptiste Bernadotte was the closest recorded relative to Gustav Vasa. Many kings including Gustav Vasa did have plenty of unrecorded bastards though, so there is probably someone with a bigger genetical claim to the throne. The current dynasty is still strong though, so it will likely not matter for the foreseeable future.
@@duntarwen2043 It seems to me that this current law of succession is a bit retroactive . Law was in force from 1st January 1980. Carl Philip was born on 13.05.1979. So I could not desagree with the King of Sweden.
King Charles and King Carl Gustaf are 4th cousins. Yes, Sweden have a few select items of crown jewelry that can be viewed at the royal treasury, one of five museums located inside the royal palace in Stockholm. I have worked there, so if you want to do a museum tour of Stockholm, next year, look me up.
My favorite clip with the king was when he saw a cat during an interview (Kungen ser en törstig katt och avbryter intervjun), never seen him this excited :')
Yes you can visit the palaces. They have several. A month ago I visited the gardens of the palace Drottningholm. They have a labyrinth that you can walk inside. I had some gorgeous waffles with jam and whipped cream, and saw a Purcell opera at their little royal theatre. It’s small and from the 17th century.
The royals get a yearly governmental apanage and they have some charity foundations as well. They serve as ambassadors in international relations, and they are always constant at the Nobel ceremony and festivities. The Swedish King is the great grandson of Queen Victoria of England and has had close relations with Queen Elizabeth II since they were kids. He was seated right up front at her burial and at the coronation of your new King.
And also the money budgeted is to cover costs of a lot of posts connected to the head of state and the team with him, security, buildings and so forth, so it does not go straight down the kings personall pockets.🙂
They really messed up the facts on the royal grandkids. 😂😂😂 1. Prince Gabriel was born in August 2017, not August 2018. 2. They claim Princess Madeleine had prince Nicholas in June 2018. He was born in June 2015! 3. She did have a child in 2018, but that was in March, and it was a daughter - princess Adrienne.
I find it cool that the King is wearing the same m/87A uniform that I occasionally do - just his bear the markings of a four star general and mine those of a sergeant in the home guard band. And his is probably tailor made. Also that swedish royalty don't use fake "honorary" ranks. I'm not really a royalist, but one time I did feel some pride over our royals. It was a pic of a bunch of young european royals in a gossip magazine. Someone had gotten married or had their wisdom teeth extracted or something, and they had gathered for a group pic. Many of the males wore military uniforms. Lots of stars and bars and gold and glitter, representing high ranks that they couldn't possibly have obtained by their age... and one plain simple swedish m/87 jacket with a simple tiny 2nd lieutenant star (not sure if you could see the simple onion on the sleeve or if it was hidden). Carl-Philip had the lowest rank by far... but his was real! I've seen his rank increase on occasion through the years (in the video he sported the rank of major) and believe he has attended military academy and actually earned them.
When Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel passed a school on their way to an event they did stop and spoke to the kids and their teachers, even if the driver and the guards was begging them to hurry for the scedual was the answer that they hade more questions to answer from the kids first.
5:30 Nope, only for a decade. Britain didn't make the firstborn child succession rule until 28th October 2011. Britain have only had 5 ruling queens out of Britains 63 rulers. They only became rulers because they hade no living brothers or uncles with sons eligible to the throne.
The parliament, not the king, changed the succession law from male primogeniture (first born son inherits) to absolute primogeniture (first born regardless of sex inherits). The king was and still is to this day very disappointed in this change, saying his son was robbed of his inheritance.
That's a bit unfair statement I think. Yes he thinks it should have started with the generation after his children, but in no way is he against woman inheriting the throne. I can understand his pow as Carl-Philip was already born and because of his own traumatic childhood. The Kings minervery mother sufferd such insane pressure because she only had daughters before him. The demands of a son from Swedes and specially the Swedish politicians at the time on Princess Sibylla effected her mentality so much, so when get husband died, the King and his sisters, basicsly most their mother too. She became a recluse physically, mentally and emotionally from get own children at a time when the king was about Carl-Philip's age when Victoria became the Crown princess instead of the son.
Yes, the king is not against female inheritance, but the problem was that Carl Philip was allready born and lost his position. The king thought it could have waited another generation. But he supports his daughter.
Just like your Queen Elisabeth King Carl Gustaf has been the one on the throne longest in Swedens history, 50 years this year. The swedish royalties have no big poltical value more than that they are a huge symbol and face out for sweden. In a really good way in my opinion! Princess Sofia is perfect in the way of showing that we all have a history and a pass but that its not all we are, she was in the swedish version of Paradise Hotel 2005, but showed that we all can grow❤️❤️
The Swedish king has no power. Less power than king Charles. The Swedish royal family has its own, private, fortune. But the Swedish court, the king and queen, the prinsess royal and her husband (and, to a certain extent, the king´s other two children and spouses) are funded by the state. So the Swedish people pay/subsidises the royals through taxes. The royal castles are owned by the state/the people. They do a lot of charity work. This year Carl XVI Gustaf has reigned for 50 years and big celebrations (live TV etc etc) are coming up this coming Thursday (September 14).
@@beritsellgren If You mean that king is the wrong word I understand you. I can say queen instead, but if You mean that a woman can not be monarch I don´t agree. Elizabeth II and Margharete II for example have for many years been good monarchs in Britain and Denmark.
I was sitting opposite the King and Queen in the cathedral of Karlstad last week, and only a few hours earlier, I asked someone in their entourage to deliver a gift to the king. I still don't know if it came through 😂😂
@dwaynesview it was a public event to celebrate that he has been on the throne for 50 years. He has been at every residential town in Sweden throughout the year, and Karlstad was the last stop.
Once when I went by SAS from Stockholm - Arlanda to Oslo I had the seat behind princess Victoria. 🙋♀️ She had big bodyguards on her both sides. She is a adorable person. Pleasant, beautiful and wise 💕
I also saw/heard him twice previous year. He has developed into a very very good speaker. I hope he got the gift. I myself sent a gift, a book with recepies once at Victorias birthday.She had said she loved animals, so I sent a vegetarian book with recepies. (I am myself both a devote monarchist and an animal rights activists-at the same time. I also attend church regurlarly. 🙂)
Two more grandchilden now. Carl Philip and sofia had Julian and Madeleine and chris had adrienne. From what I understand Sofia is liked by the swedish people now and chris is applying for a german citizenship, by descent. The family is moving back to sweden, but the aplication for chris to get swedish citizenship takes to long so german instead. So I read.
Many unconfirmed rumours abut the king was spread here. I don´t know whats true or not, but I think that the royal family is doing a pretty good job representing Sweden.
The Swedish Royal familj are related to the British Royal family. King Carl XVI Gustav’s mother, Princess Sibylla was a descended to Queen Victoria, as well as her mother in-law, Princess Margret.
That is true. Another nice thing is that as far as I know all royals in Europe are descended from Gustav Vasa of Sweden, king 1523-1560, who had 11 children.
Yes, I noticed that too. (And also through the women married into the Bernadotte dynasty the king nd his children and his grand children are also descended from earlier Swedish dynasties.)🙂
In the 1650 a woman was crowned as king, due to her father Gustav II Adolf Vasa died when she was six. She was raised as the future king therefore she got a education as if she was a man. She abdicated and her cousin took over the crown. So in her time she was referred as the king of Sweden, nowadays she is referred as a Queen.
Queen Kristina of Sweden became queen in 1632, at the age of 6 when her father died in battle. She was crowned in 1650 as "queen in her own power", and she abdicated in 1654.
Hi so it's not weird for them to have dark hair. The swedish blond is not a myth but they're not as common as in Denmark, Norway, Finland or Island. The most common hair color in Sweden is dark blond to a light brown. I don't know many natural blonds as a Swedish person. Edit: Who made the video you're watching? The king didn't want the rules changed. He wanted his second child, the boy, to be next in line. I'm pretty sure the government forces it? It wasn't the king in any case.
Norway and Denmark are also monarchies. The monarchs have zero power. Finland however have a president. The royal family are, as far as I understand very hard working and respected. And, as said in the video, the crownprincess is even loved, as well as her husband. There are plenty of interesting things to say about the family and the specific causes they have chosen to work with. The Queen for example have started a foundation working against sexual abuse of children. The crownprincess and her husband (him especially) are working to get children to engage in some sports, instead of only be seated in front of the screen. Carl Philip and his wife are very active working against bullying, particularly over Internet. The King was from very early age worried about climate change and has been trying to make everyone aware of this huge problem. Several members of the royal family suffer of dyslexia and especially Carl-Philip is working with educating people on that issue. Madeleine is working in her mother's organisation (i.e. sexual abuse). To learn about the royals of Europe is actually quite interesting because not only do they all seem to be related, one way or another, but also they are - needless to say - so interlinked with all major historical events.
So well written post!! I would like to add that Crown princess Victoria big issue is the environment and speciality saving the Baltic Sea. She's even strepped in in the quite as a mediator ( trying to save the Baltic sea) when the countries and companies around the Baltics negotiated rules and regulations.
You can visit the royal palace in Stockholm and see the armoury and the palace church and such. You can also visit Drottningholm palace where the king and queen lives. I must say though, this video has a lot of errors in it. We've had loads of kings and queens before Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was put on the throne..
2:50 It's not primarily the French descent that makes them dark. It was a while ago, and the current king's mother was German, for instance. I would be more because the current queen is half Brazilian (half German). And lots of real Swedes are also dark-ish. The "only blondes" myth is just that.
Yes, the descendance line from Carl XIV Johan is only one line actually. Actually the king according to family trees has for example 91 lines of descendance from Gustav Vasa, Swedish king 1523-1560. (Even if that was 500 years ago).As far as I know all royals in Europe are descended from Gustav Vasa.
Norway has a royal family,,the Netherlands has a royal family,, Denmark has a royal family,Belgium has a royal family,Luxembourg has a royal family,Monaco has a royal family Spain has a royal family, Japan has a royal family, Bhutan has a royal family,
19:14 King Carl XVI Gustaf & Queen Elizabeth II were third cousins. Both share the same great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. He is around the 300th place in the line of succession to the British throne.
The British royal family got absolute progeny. (The first child inherits) instead of male progeny, for the first time in over 300 years, in 2011. The reason both queen Victoria and queen Elizabeth II was made ruling queens was cause they didn't have any brothers/other close male relatives that was eligble to inherit the throne
Growing up in Germany the Swedish Royal Family has always been popular here, probably due to Queen Silvia’s decendance and they get covered in yellow press media just like the British RF does.
I have made a filet-o-fish hamburger to Prince Carl Phillip when i had a summer job at McDonalds in 2007. I don't know why but i bragged about it to my friends back then 😬🤦♂️🤣
If I remember well the mother if Queen Silvia is related to the Royals of Portugal and Brazil by a very far illegitimate birth of someone of her ancestors
@@danielaxivitz6188 l have never heard that Queen Silvia of Sweden is in any way connected to Portugal and Brazil in a royal line. But l will try to find out tho, because now when l think alittle the Queen has a crown called the Brazilian crown, and she got it from Brazil. 🙂
@@LottaB60 Yes the Crown is a part of the Jewelleries of the Swedish Royal Family since 19th century. This Crown was inherited by a swedish Queen ( I dont remember now exactly the name) who wss sister of empress of Brazil
@@LottaB60 The Empress of Brazil was Amelia of Leuchtemberg second wife of Emperor Pedro I of the house of Braganza (Portugal) They had only a daugter whose death was due to the tubercolosis diseas. She left her jewels to her sister Queen Josephina of Sweden wife of King Oscar l . Among these there was also the " Brazilian tiara " known as " the Braganza tiara ". Amelie and Josefina were daugthers (with others) of Eugene de Beuharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg , son of Josephine de Beauharnais wife of Napoleon I. Their mother was Princess Augusta of Bavaria.
Christopher O'Neil have a brittish father and "austrian" mother (or sudetgerman, probably born in the part of Tjeck republic that back in the time was a lots of germanspeakers lived in, they was transported or flied after WWII).
Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia have both Finnish ancestors. King Carl Gustav had cousin Conradin Castell from Finland. Conradin was origin from Germany. (King Carl-Gustavs mother Princess Sibylla was origin from Germany.) He died in 2011.
The prince philip used to drive Stcc. car sport . and he is the most earth bound person i met. Was cheking the cars after one of the laps and xD the prince shook hands with people etc. i first didnt know who the F he was . got supriced when he did see my bags of gifflar ( swedish cinamon bake thingy) and he asked for a couple . i was like well ofc here ya go man. and it clocked thats our damn prince . wtf shall i bow kneel wtf xD . but na he was chill and cool . got way more respect for him after that.
I'm a Swedish scout so I've encountered our king a few times. Our king is an honorary scout and he used to visit the big scout camps in Sweden. (I don't know about nowadays since I haven't been an active scout in 10 years) He would always hold a little speech and do the The Sedish Rocket (his international name for it, usually called Raketen=The Rocket), and when the camps were international we Swedes both got embarrassed and proud at the same time. The Swedish Rocket is a fun way to clap your hands and is used a lot when doing events with kids, you start by clapping your hands slow on either side, then it goes faster and faster, you start stomping your feet and when it gets so fast it's just noice you imitate the sound of a lit fuse, rubbing your hands in the air in front of your mouth and then release it all with your hands up and a shout. I'm describing this because it's a fun thing to see your king do on stage.
Our King are not able to change any laws and doesn’t usually speak his mind about any politics. But when the Russian ambassador was invited to the Nobel dinner 2022 he spoke up and they took back the invitation quickly. There was a rumor that the King wouldn’t attend the dinner if they didn’t.
If I remember correctly, the Royal Court announced that they were ”surprised” (which must be considered strong language in this context) and that the king hadn’t decided yet whether he would participate in the ceremony. More than that didn’t need to be said.
I don’t think they tell everything for example Sofia and a friend started project playground I Africa a think it’s a school for poor kids. But she had to step down when she became royal. She and the prince today work to find a way to prevent cyber bullying and how to live with dyslexia.
Yes! I wish they talked about their genuine work instead of some old gossip. But just a few add ons: She is still Honorary Chairman of Project Playground and Prince Carl-Philip are honorary board member. Princess Sofia is still sits on the 3 person election committee for the organisation. So they are still involved and worked with it, just not in the same way or capacity, but Project Playground have also grown so much since and they have their other foundation to focus on. :)
They are related to your british family by queen Victoria that was our Kings great great grandmother on his father side. They are also related to the old King Gustav Vasa who was king in Sweden during the 1500's. Napoleon together with Sweden chose Jean Baptist Bernadotte to take the trone in Sweden after Karl XIII. His wife Desideria was engaged to Napoleon but the he met Josephine and broke the engagement with Desideria off and introduced her to Jean Baptiste
aaa I did not know that even though Im swedish :D to be fare we hardly have any lecture on our Kings father and mother as they sadly never reigned @@danielaxivitz6188
Yes,-Our king has around 90 lines of descendance from Gustv Vasa. The Danish king Frederik has about 120 lines from Gusrtav Vasa. Yes Napoleon supported the choice of Bernadotte as crown prince in Sweden, but later he (Sweden) went to war against Napoleon.
The British Royal familly had Male preference Primogeniture untill march 2015 with the Perth Agreement. That is why Anne was in line after even her 2 younger brothers. Sweden was the first to go from Male to Absolute Primogeniture in 1980 and at this point big sis Victoria moved ahead of little brother Carl Philip. Denmark also changed their from Male only to male prefered in 1953 making Margrethe II heir. Firts in 2009 was it changed to absolute but since Margrethe only had sons, there was never a rush. Even 2. in line is male but modern times calles for equality between genders.
The blond hair is a myth when it comes to Sweden that is more accurate with Norway. Fact is that most Swedes have dark hair . (And when I talk about blond I am talking about natural blond hair, which is actually rare). Most Swedes are Brunetts with blue eyes. And our native group , Samer also have more of Dark Hair. So the blond hair Swede myth need to go. :) By the way born and raised in Luleå myself. and have Samiskt (do not know how to spell it in English) ancestry. So the Racist and the Islamophobes in my country that tell people to go back where they came from need to go back to school. Fact is also that Muslims have been in Sweden longer then some that call themselves Swedes.
Well I am n ot one of these "racists", However I am for spiritual reasons, not political, not a supporter of islam, as it denies the very centre of my own faith. But I agree that these who >"expect all Swedes" to be blond are wrong.
Personally I like prince Daniel and princess Sofia a lot, but don't like Chris. And princess Estelle seems to be the happiest, sweetest little girl there is. She'll be a great queen one day.
Not much is true in that video. Some examples are the children: Prince Carl-Philip and Princess Sofia's children were born in 2016, 2017 and 2021 and Princess Madeleine and Mr Chris O'neill's children were born in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
I am Swedish and my daughter have the same colour of skin that you do and her hair IS really dark, acctually black! I am amazed that you say things like ”pure bred”??? We swedes look very different just like you do in Britain. It is hilarous to see/hear all your prejudice!
There can be Queens even if the rule of power is going to the firstborn boy. Historically both in Sweden and England have had several regent Queens but that has been because they have been for example the only child and were particuarly sharp and had a king father that personally didn't care that she was female. Several Queens both in England and Sweden didn't marry anyone as they were expected to do because then their husband would take over the role of ruling the country. So there were so many loopholes a princess had to go through in order to become regent. What King Karl Gustav did was that he eliminated all the loopholes and just made any firstborn a future regent.
Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Elizabeth are/were third cousins (but once removed) I think. Queen Victoria's granddaughter princess Margaret was the grandmother of king Carl XVI Gustaf, but she died very young.
To clear things up, it wasn’t the king who cange the order of succession, it was parlament and the king was agaisnt it. In UK the order of succession was cange around the time of Prince Georges birth (son of William and Kate). UK have had à LOT of Queens but that is because the ruling king didn’t have a son. In the case of queen Victoria, she was the nice of the king and I belive the only true born child among the kings siblings. Now this videos quite old so Prince Carl Philip had another son and princesa Madeleine had another doughter. The only who I think is working royals are the king and queen and princess Victoria and prince Daniel. The royal family have no power, They only represent Sweden.
But the king was not in principle against female inheritance. He objected to the time the change was made, as his son was allready crown prince when hte new law started being in function.
Yes, Britain have had 8 female regents, since Empress Matilda, born 1102. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was the longest-ruling monarch of Great Britain, born 1837.
Wikipedia on the crown princess of Sweden: "Her inheritance is secured by Sweden's 1979 Act of Succession, the first law in Western Europe to adopt royal absolute primogeniture." The king gave up the last governmental power the position had in 1975, the only remaining ones are ceremonial. The royal family, as a whole, gets a yearly stipend from the state of about 16 million Euro to maintain the palace, pay staff, as well as to pay for travel and other expenses. The king/reigning monarch has immunity to prosecution under criminal, though not civil, law. He's also fond of speeding. The king and the rest of the royal family represents Sweden abroad but does not negotiate for Sweden. Many members of the royal family are engaged in charity work in one way or another
They are all working royals. Princess Madeleine spends her time divided between NY and Sweden though. She works for Queen Silvias charity "Childhood". They do get money from the state, but it has been cut significantly since a few years, giving the direct line the ones who gets most of the money and the rest a lot less then before. Quuen Silvia works for a lot of different charitys, the most famous one's are for children's safe upbringing and dementia. The crown princess work's a lot with disabled people and children. Her husband with having a healthy lifestyle, changing the way of thinking from childhood. Carl-Philip (who was born a crown prince, but got the title taken at only around a year old) and his wife works with bullying and ending stigma against dyslexia etc. He is also a racecar driver and also makes art, has his own line of silverwear, sculptures etc. It's a good royal family whom are all very loved by most of the people. All are excepted and people love to see them out and about. And both Carl-Philip and Madeleine has one more kid since this was made. Our king just celebrated 50 years on the throne!!!
It have not been any scandals after this video was created but princess Madeleine and Christopher got a third kid, princess Adrienne and prince Carl Filip and princess Sofia have got a third one to, prince Julian. Something I find a bit funny is that prince Carl Filip have a tendency to be in lists like ”the best looking princes in the world” and so on. 😅
@@beritsellgrencould be because Carl-Philip have had a much safer and secure upbringing that seems to have been quite healty, while our Kings childhood and upbringing had a lot of trauma, lonliness and difficulty, also in a world that looked very different from when Carl-Philip was born. Also the King became King when he was only 27, and was constantly criticised and mocked because of his dyslexia his while life, specially in the media and by people.
Viktoria is definitely a favorite, she's so down to earth and genuine. It's hard not to like her, she also supports a lot of charities and have hosted the QX-gala (A big LGBTQ+ celebration) before
If Victoria is ready I would like our king to retire in peace and let her rule. I like out royals. They saved Sweden from destruction. We would just be an outpost to Germany or France otherwise.
Yes. As soon as you see the HRH Prince Carl Philip - that reaction of HANDSOME - is very easy to make. Haha! Cheers from Stockholm. (Also it's "Bernadotte". Wrong in the video you're reacting to.) Regarding the father of HRH Queen Sylvia is in fact proven wrong. Her father actually helped people to escape the Nazis. A bit like Schindler.
Exactly!! That correction didn't get much attention and didn't sell as much papers and clicks though, seems that many people will rather believe scandalous lies than factual truths.
The swedish Royal family are descents from Queen Victoria. Our current kings grandmother was Margareth of Connaught. And our Kings mother Princess Sibylla was greatgranddaughter of Queen Victoria as well.
Princess madeleine have 3 children the latest born in 2018. They lived in england for a while and then US and this fall they will be moving to sweden :)
It was the Swedish parliament (the Riksdag) that changed the law that the firstborn would inherit the throne, regardless if it was a boy or a girl. The king didn't change it, in fact, he was against it.
there are some errors... the king didnt change the order of succession... the Swedish parliament did against the kings wishes, he wanted the prince to be the heir but the government changed the law and hence Victoria as the first born became the heir so not as progressive as the video implied.
Don't want to be "that guy"...but I suggest picking a video with actual (correct) facts instead of this tabloid-style video. This is sadly full of misleading and incorrect information. I mean the creator couldn't even get the surname right. It's Bernadotte not Bernadette, for example.
Fun fact: The ancestor of the Swedish royal dynasty, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (note: that crappy "documentary" couldn't even get the spelling right!) was (and remains) the first person to be head-hunted for the position of successor to a European throne, based on ability rather than on lineage. He was one of Napoleon's generals, with a distinguished career. Of course, It's also alleged that his wife was a mistress of Napoleon, so the boss was glad to ship him off to the far north. Napoleon did expect his old buddy to secure Swedish support for him in his ongoing wars, but this didn't quite pan out since our capable general and king soon saw that Napoleon's cause was lost and switched sides.
UK changed from oldest son inherit, oldest daughter if no sons in 2013. Sweden changed from oldest son inherit, daugthers do not inherit at all in 1980. Worth to note UK has a huge list (5000+) for the sucession they will never run out of heirs. Sweden have a short list, never been bigger than now and there are 11 persons on it. When there are no heir our Parliament elect a Monarch, and if the last one had daughters it will be one of them, if not had he any sisters then one of them and it if neither... Well that how the first Bernadotte become King of Sweden.
Hello from Finland! I’m pretty sure that the British line of succession was only changed from firstborn son to firstborn child when prince William and princess Katherine were expecting their first child so that if it was a girl, she would be the heir. Before that it was always the first born son. Queens like Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II inhereted the throne only because they didn’t have any brothers. So Sweden was ahead of the game there…
My king is the GOAT, all he does is show up at events, surpass the speedlimits in his bmw m6 (raced him at a redlight once), he used to be a fckboi, now he’s just chillin and keeps on bringing us memes just by being himself. Gotta love him
No. I have seen and heard him twice 2023. He has among other things developed into a very good speaker. And he does a lot of things and I think his work and role are important for the Swedish nation indeed.
The Swedish Royal Family (henceforth SRF) have absolutely no say in the ruling of Sweden. That responsibility is fully offloaded to the Parliament. That said, the King does still have a ceremonial function in the "Opening of parliament" where he personally gives a speech, usually about "hopes for a good term of office and a strong leadership for the country moving forward" and declares Parliament opened. Other than things of that nature, such as presiding over the Nobel Price ceremony, what the SRF mainly does is representation and promotion of the country. And at least some of the members either have their own or strongly support different charities. Queen Silvia even has a childrens hospital named after her for example.
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Daniel Westling helped Victoria to get well from her eating disorder by training and they fell in love! It's all very sweet and she had the Swedish people behind her.
The Swedish King has changed exactly 0 laws. That's because the monarch of Sweden has no say in it's governance.
The Swedish King has very little power yes, but one oddity still remains, he has the licence to kill, without any reprecussions.
@@magnusnilsson9792 CXVIG is not subject to law, he is above it. Imagine the horror when Victoria Regina ascends, with the same privileges. (I am kidding, she is just the sweetest)
@@magnusnilsson9792no such license exists, he is immune from prosecution though.
@@JohanHultin Which will change the moment he commits a serious crime, I have no doubt.
The entire royal family also has to adhere to a specific christian branch. No religious freedom whatsoever.
2:15 Calling the current family "the first king" seems a little bizarre. Early kings for a united Sweden were in the 1200s, basically Birger Jarl's family, Bjälboätten. And there were kings of Svealand (Sweden proper) before that.
Absolutely. Btw, I know that in the palace of Bjälboätten, or next to it, theres is a grave of an English Plantagenet princess, Philippa of England, who married one of the Swedish kings.
I think they said the first king in the current family. There were kings before that, but not related to the current one.
@@johnnyrosenberg9522 They did, but not very clearly.
U ferget king Erik Segersäll
First of United Sweden and daddy to Olof Skötkonung first kingy to mint coins in ol Sweden back when Sigtuna was the capital
There were also kings of Götaland prior to that.
This voiceover gets a lot of things wrong. I'd say that the Swedes prefer Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia to Chris O'Neill and has from the start. They weren't so much controversial as they were a bit entertaining for the gossip tabloids, but both are very well liked. And, like others have said, the King has no power to change any laws.
This is absolutely true.
Alot of it probably comes from Chris being american.
Not specifically american but NOT Swedish as it ended up moving our princess across the sea to another country.
He is also a bit dramatic imo.
Which is saying alot considering where Sofia came from.
I was really skeptic of her in the beginning but she turned out fine.
I think the main reason there weren’t much opinion about princess Madeleine marrying Chris O’Neill was that no one really cared… Victoria and Carl Philip are much more interesting to the population!
And I think he’s mostly disliked because of his actions and personality rather than his nationality (or that might just be me 😅).
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As a Swede i love our King, he's amazing and hilarious haha.. And there's tons of hilarious memes out there with him that always puts a smile on your face, we really do have a good royal family and personally i like that they're somewhat flawed, it makes them relatable🤷♂
Yeah IKR! They are not much different from our typical swedish family. Pretty much the only difference is that they have the title of "royalty" which in this day and age means pretty much nothing.
agree!
100%
The King is fakking great.
I met him in perosn several times during my military service, he is the greatest guy.
He just love having fun but he also have to keep his dignity in public so he always find ways to sneak off to do something he enjoy.
@@F1rstWorldNomaD He does like his fast cars.
I'm Swedish and realized a few days ago that the queen of Denmark and the king of Sweden are cousins, and that the queen of Denmark speaks fluent Swedish.
All the European royal houses are closely related... much due to Victoria of Britain and Gustav Adolf of Sweden marrying their daughters into all of them.
Queen Margerethe's mother was Ingrid of Sweden, the current King of Sweden's aunt, for example.
@@SteamboatW the Danish royals did the same - king Christian the 9th (1817-1898) was called the father-in-law of Europe
Their children:
King Frederik 8. of Denmark (1843-1912)
Queen Alexandra of Great Britain (1844-1925) married Edvard the 7th
King Georg 1. of Greece (1845-1913)
Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (1847-1928) married zar Aleksandr the 3rd.
Princess Thyra of Hannover (1853-1933), married crown prince Ernest Augustus
Margharetes mother was princess Ingrid of Sweden (who became queen of Denmark). As a little curiosiity I can mention that Margharete, and her son king Frederik X, have 124 lines of descendance from the Swedish king Gustav Vasa, according to "family trees", and the king in Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf likewise 91. Frederik X is the European monarch with most lines of descendance from Gustav Vasa, but as far as I know all royalties in Europe descend from Gustav Vasa (+ 150 000 Swedes, among them Carl Bildt and Magnus Uggla).
Sofia is very much loved here in Sweden. So is Daniel.
RUclips has a serious lack of good videos on the Swedish royal family, this one is filled with halftruths, exaggerations and so on (plus it’s quite dated since the family has grown even more since then)
In Sweden we have quite a number of documentaries available(especially this year because of the king’s jubilee) but they’re all in Swedish with no option for English subtitles.
Yes, and it is also allways forgotten that the history of our royal family is in one way much longer than since 1818, because most of the women married into the Bernadotte family have been descended from older Swedish dynasties. The royal family descends from "ynglingaätten", Erikska ätten, Sverkerska ätten, Folkungaätten , Vasaätten, Pfalziska ätten and Holstein Gottorp as far as the family trees show. For example-when Oscar II wellcomed Friedrich I of Baden to Sweden, grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf and father of Victoriaa who was married to the future Gustav V, (and daughter in law to Oscar II) he said (and I think it was touching); "Your mothers country, your daughters country". Friedrichs mother was the princess Sofia Wilhelmina, daughter to Gustav IV Adolf and Fredrika. I love wnen our current crown princess Victoria wears the "Vasa-earrings" who had folowed Gustav IV Adolf and Fredrika abroad when they were exciled in 1809.
Our king Karl Gustav did not change any laws at all because he has no power.
Queen Victoria was the paternal grandmother of the King of Sweden. The Swedish royal house is close to the British one.
Fun fact: Princess Sofia (the one who posed with the snake) put on some scrubs and volunteered at a hospital during the pandemic.
Queen Victoria of Sweden (born 1862 in Karlsruhe, Germany, as Victoria of Baden) was paternal great-grandmother to the present king. Not grandmother, and she is(was) not Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
@@mattallen369det är inte drottning Victoria som är gammelmormor i flera led utan det som skriv Queen Victoria, kungens farmor är barnbarn till Queen Victoria.
@@Pillan74 OK ... då var det jag som inte förstod hur han menade... Kung Carl XVI Gustafs (biologiska) farmor var prinsessan Margareta, = Margaret av Connaught, vars farmor var drottning Victoria av Storbritannien, helt korrekt, medan drottning Victoria av Sverige var kung Carl XVI Gustafs farfars mor.😄...lite många Victorior att hålla reda på...
@@mattallen369 The British Queen Victoria was the paternal grandmother of Carl XVI Gustav. Carl Gustav and (the British) Queen Elisabeth II were fourth cousins.
@@olsa76 Well…add a couple of generations. The grandmother of king Carl XVI Gustaf was princess Margaret, born Margaret of Connaught, (she was British). She died before her husband became king. (Present king’s grandfather), she was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
The queen's mother was from Brazil, so she's half German, half Brazilian. And yes, they are related to the British royal family. The kings grandfather, King Gustavus VI. was married to princess Margareth of UK. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. When Margareth died, king Gustavus VI remarried Louise Mountbatten, sister to general Mountbatten who was a somewhat fatherly figure to prince Phillip. So there're some tight connections.
Not only , The King is connected to Queen Victoria by maternal side .
Princesse Sybilla, king's mother was great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
When the king was 16 he went on a sailing trip with prince Charles and princess Anne of England. I saw some photos. It looked very nice. Yes, they are distantly related to Queen Victoria of England. It’s their great great grandmother or similar. But also to Napoleon etc.
Greetings from Finland! You can visit the Royal Palace in Sweden, see the "treasure chamber," and the crown jewels. In fact, I visited the castle myself the summer before last.
Yes, tghat´s a nice tourist goal
Basically no one was against Prince Daniel or Princess Sofia marrying into the Royal family. Sweden had fell in love with Prince Carl-Philip long term girlfriend he had before Sofia, and we missed her when they broke up. I think the only scandal is the foreign media like to stir up scandals. Both Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia are hard working Royals, and have really stepped up. Prince Daniel was together with Crown Princess Victoria for many years before they got engaged, just as William and Catherine. Prince Daniel was sooo cheered on by the Swedish public and we couldn't wait for them to be official, and was over the moon when they got engaged and got married!
Christophe O'Neil isn't as much liked, more tolerated. He is basically constantly grumpy, if he ever showes up at all. He doesn't seem supportive of Madeleine and acts like he looks down on anything Swedish or Royal. I really hope he makes her happy cause my impression of him isn't the best. He seems a bit disrespectful, so I really hope he is nicer person in private. He comes from a finance high society family, with an ambitious Austrian mother, who is best friend with Ivana Trump, and who's children (Chris's sisters) all married aristocratic men from old high nobility in UK and Austria. Mrs O'Neill is seen as mrs Trumps "personal social fixer". So he is not a "commoner", and he wanted to keep and expand his business empire and keep being a finance and business man, a role that isn't compatible with being a Royal.
the swedish government changed the rule about the first born being next in line. So their second child, a boy, carl Philip, was born crown prince but he lost that title to his older sister, victoria. And queen silvias mother was brazilian. Jean baptiste Bernadotte got adopted as a grown man by the then swedish king bc he had no children. Some details lacking in this clip.
Yes and the King wanted the change for the next generation, making Carl Philip the king.
Yes, and he didn't change the law about marrying commoners. The law was and is, marry without the Monarchs permission and you lose your place in the succession and your titles. He just changed the custom, no Bernadotte Monarch before him ever gave permission to marry a non-noble ( a policy instated I think by Carl XIV Gustaf).
Jean baptiste Bernadotte was the closest recorded relative to Gustav Vasa.
Many kings including Gustav Vasa did have plenty of unrecorded bastards though, so there is probably someone with a bigger genetical claim to the throne.
The current dynasty is still strong though, so it will likely not matter for the foreseeable future.
Brazilian-portuguese from her mother and german from her father.
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It seems to me that this current law of succession is a bit retroactive .
Law was in force from 1st January 1980.
Carl Philip was born on 13.05.1979.
So I could not desagree with the King of Sweden.
King Charles and King Carl Gustaf are 4th cousins.
Yes, Sweden have a few select items of crown jewelry that can be viewed at the royal treasury, one of five museums located inside the royal palace in Stockholm.
I have worked there, so if you want to do a museum tour of Stockholm, next year, look me up.
My favorite clip with the king was when he saw a cat during an interview (Kungen ser en törstig katt och avbryter intervjun), never seen him this excited :')
Haven't seen that clip with our king. How can I find it?
Yes you can visit the palaces. They have several. A month ago I visited the gardens of the palace Drottningholm. They have a labyrinth that you can walk inside. I had some gorgeous waffles with jam and whipped cream, and saw a Purcell opera at their little royal theatre. It’s small and from the 17th century.
The royals get a yearly governmental apanage and they have some charity foundations as well. They serve as ambassadors in international relations, and they are always constant at the Nobel ceremony and festivities. The Swedish King is the great grandson of Queen Victoria of England and has had close relations with Queen Elizabeth II since they were kids. He was seated right up front at her burial and at the coronation of your new King.
And also the money budgeted is to cover costs of a lot of posts connected to the head of state and the team with him, security, buildings and so forth, so it does not go straight down the kings personall pockets.🙂
Most people in Sweden do not like Chris, he is pompous and does nothing for Sweden. In addition, he seems to have some shady dealings.
I never liked him from the beginning. I hoped he had changed somewhat over the years. I don't know.
But he has beautiful children and he loves his wife.
Thank you! I think basically all of Sweden agrees with you!
Don´t speak bad about people who can´t defend themselfes.
They really messed up the facts on the royal grandkids. 😂😂😂
1. Prince Gabriel was born in August 2017, not August 2018.
2. They claim Princess Madeleine had prince Nicholas in June 2018. He was born in June 2015!
3. She did have a child in 2018, but that was in March, and it was a daughter - princess Adrienne.
I also like correct facts if one is to write it publically on the internet.🙂
I find it cool that the King is wearing the same m/87A uniform that I occasionally do - just his bear the markings of a four star general and mine those of a sergeant in the home guard band. And his is probably tailor made.
Also that swedish royalty don't use fake "honorary" ranks. I'm not really a royalist, but one time I did feel some pride over our royals. It was a pic of a bunch of young european royals in a gossip magazine. Someone had gotten married or had their wisdom teeth extracted or something, and they had gathered for a group pic. Many of the males wore military uniforms. Lots of stars and bars and gold and glitter, representing high ranks that they couldn't possibly have obtained by their age... and one plain simple swedish m/87 jacket with a simple tiny 2nd lieutenant star (not sure if you could see the simple onion on the sleeve or if it was hidden). Carl-Philip had the lowest rank by far... but his was real! I've seen his rank increase on occasion through the years (in the video he sported the rank of major) and believe he has attended military academy and actually earned them.
When Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel passed a school on their way to an event they did stop and spoke to the kids and their teachers, even if the driver and the guards was begging them to hurry for the scedual was the answer that they hade more questions to answer from the kids first.
5:30 Nope, only for a decade. Britain didn't make the firstborn child succession rule until 28th October 2011. Britain have only had 5 ruling queens out of Britains 63 rulers. They only became rulers because they hade no living brothers or uncles with sons eligible to the throne.
Interesting!
6 queens*
The parliament, not the king, changed the succession law from male primogeniture (first born son inherits) to absolute primogeniture (first born regardless of sex inherits). The king was and still is to this day very disappointed in this change, saying his son was robbed of his inheritance.
meanwhile Carl-Philip probably let out a sigh of relief.
@@thehoogardYeah, that would not have landed well. Love Viktoria.
That's a bit unfair statement I think. Yes he thinks it should have started with the generation after his children, but in no way is he against woman inheriting the throne.
I can understand his pow as Carl-Philip was already born and because of his own traumatic childhood. The Kings minervery mother sufferd such insane pressure because she only had daughters before him. The demands of a son from Swedes and specially the Swedish politicians at the time on Princess Sibylla effected her mentality so much, so when get husband died, the King and his sisters, basicsly most their mother too. She became a recluse physically, mentally and emotionally from get own children at a time when the king was about Carl-Philip's age when Victoria became the Crown princess instead of the son.
Yes, the king is not against female inheritance, but the problem was that Carl Philip was allready born and lost his position. The king thought it could have waited another generation. But he supports his daughter.
Just like your Queen Elisabeth King Carl Gustaf has been the one on the throne longest in Swedens history, 50 years this year. The swedish royalties have no big poltical value more than that they are a huge symbol and face out for sweden. In a really good way in my opinion! Princess Sofia is perfect in the way of showing that we all have a history and a pass but that its not all we are, she was in the swedish version of Paradise Hotel 2005, but showed that we all can grow❤️❤️
sweden is officially known as Kingdom of Sweden
The Swedish king has no power. Less power than king Charles. The Swedish royal family has its own, private, fortune. But the Swedish court, the king and queen, the prinsess royal and her husband (and, to a certain extent, the king´s other two children and spouses) are funded by the state. So the Swedish people pay/subsidises the royals through taxes. The royal castles are owned by the state/the people. They do a lot of charity work. This year Carl XVI Gustaf has reigned for 50 years and big celebrations (live TV etc etc) are coming up this coming Thursday (September 14).
I love our king!!! Hes funny and very human. He does alot of funny things like say wrong things in speeches and more.
Never forget: Boys make better kings than girls ..😁
Not nowadays. he has developed to a VERY GOOD speaker. I saw and herd him twice previous year in Jönköping and Göteborg.
@@beritsellgren Not allways I think.
@@svenerikjohansson8130 Girls can't be kings😉
@@beritsellgren If You mean that king is the wrong word I understand you. I can say queen instead, but if You mean that a woman can not be monarch I don´t agree. Elizabeth II and Margharete II for example have for many years been good monarchs in Britain and Denmark.
I'm guessing I'm not the only Swede writing here :P I adore our royal family. They feel like a modern family.
💯 agree!
I was sitting opposite the King and Queen in the cathedral of Karlstad last week, and only a few hours earlier, I asked someone in their entourage to deliver a gift to the king. I still don't know if it came through 😂😂
Wow really? Are you an aristocrat? Lol! How did you get so close to them?
@dwaynesview it was a public event to celebrate that he has been on the throne for 50 years. He has been at every residential town in Sweden throughout the year, and Karlstad was the last stop.
Once when I went by SAS from Stockholm - Arlanda to Oslo I had the seat behind princess Victoria. 🙋♀️
She had big bodyguards on her both sides.
She is a adorable person. Pleasant, beautiful and wise 💕
I also saw/heard him twice previous year. He has developed into a very very good speaker. I hope he got the gift. I myself sent a gift, a book with recepies once at Victorias birthday.She had said she loved animals, so I sent a vegetarian book with recepies. (I am myself both a devote monarchist and an animal rights activists-at the same time. I also attend church regurlarly. 🙂)
Two more grandchilden now. Carl Philip and sofia had Julian and Madeleine and chris had adrienne. From what I understand Sofia is liked by the swedish people now and chris is applying for a german citizenship, by descent. The family is moving back to sweden, but the aplication for chris to get swedish citizenship takes to long so german instead. So I read.
They have a lot of fans all over the world, even from England ❤😊
Many unconfirmed rumours abut the king was spread here. I don´t know whats true or not, but I think that the royal family is doing a pretty good job representing Sweden.
The Swedish Royal familj are related to the British Royal family. King Carl XVI Gustav’s mother, Princess Sibylla was a descended to Queen Victoria, as well as her mother in-law, Princess Margret.
That is true. Another nice thing is that as far as I know all royals in Europe are descended from Gustav Vasa of Sweden, king 1523-1560, who had 11 children.
First time I come across your chanel and you are talking about my royal family! ❤
The correct name is BernadOtte, not BernadEtte.
Yes, I noticed that too. (And also through the women married into the Bernadotte dynasty the king nd his children and his grand children are also descended from earlier Swedish dynasties.)🙂
In the 1650 a woman was crowned as king, due to her father Gustav II Adolf Vasa died when she was six. She was raised as the future king therefore she got a education as if she was a man. She abdicated and her cousin took over the crown. So in her time she was referred as the king of Sweden, nowadays she is referred as a Queen.
Queen Kristina of Sweden became queen in 1632, at the age of 6 when her father died in battle. She was crowned in 1650 as "queen in her own power", and she abdicated in 1654.
Yes, (kung byxlös) King pantless.
@@magnusnilsson9792Nej "Kung Byxlös" var Margareta av Danmark som styrde Danmark, Norge och Sverige.
Victoria is our princess and future queen. We love her. Estelle and Oscar will go next, in that order.
Hi so it's not weird for them to have dark hair. The swedish blond is not a myth but they're not as common as in Denmark, Norway, Finland or Island. The most common hair color in Sweden is dark blond to a light brown. I don't know many natural blonds as a Swedish person.
Edit: Who made the video you're watching? The king didn't want the rules changed. He wanted his second child, the boy, to be next in line. I'm pretty sure the government forces it? It wasn't the king in any case.
Norway and Denmark are also monarchies. The monarchs have zero power. Finland however have a president.
The royal family are, as far as I understand very hard working and respected. And, as said in the video, the crownprincess is even loved, as well as her husband. There are plenty of interesting things to say about the family and the specific causes they have chosen to work with. The Queen for example have started a foundation working against sexual abuse of children. The crownprincess and her husband (him especially) are working to get children to engage in some sports, instead of only be seated in front of the screen. Carl Philip and his wife are very active working against bullying, particularly over Internet. The King was from very early age worried about climate change and has been trying to make everyone aware of this huge problem. Several members of the royal family suffer of dyslexia and especially Carl-Philip is working with educating people on that issue. Madeleine is working in her mother's organisation (i.e. sexual abuse).
To learn about the royals of Europe is actually quite interesting because not only do they all seem to be related, one way or another, but also they are - needless to say - so interlinked with all major historical events.
So well written post!! I would like to add that Crown princess Victoria big issue is the environment and speciality saving the Baltic Sea. She's even strepped in in the quite as a mediator ( trying to save the Baltic sea) when the countries and companies around the Baltics negotiated rules and regulations.
My grandpa played with the Sweden king when they where kids. Grand grandpa was the kings grandfathers (the king back then) mecanic.
You can visit the royal palace in Stockholm and see the armoury and the palace church and such. You can also visit Drottningholm palace where the king and queen lives. I must say though, this video has a lot of errors in it. We've had loads of kings and queens before Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was put on the throne..
2:50 It's not primarily the French descent that makes them dark. It was a while ago, and the current king's mother was German, for instance. I would be more because the current queen is half Brazilian (half German). And lots of real Swedes are also dark-ish. The "only blondes" myth is just that.
Yes!!
Yes, the descendance line from Carl XIV Johan is only one line actually. Actually the king according to family trees has for example 91 lines of descendance from Gustav Vasa, Swedish king 1523-1560. (Even if that was 500 years ago).As far as I know all royals in Europe are descended from Gustav Vasa.
Norway has a royal family,,the Netherlands has a royal family,, Denmark has a royal family,Belgium has a royal family,Luxembourg has a royal family,Monaco has a royal family Spain has a royal family, Japan has a royal family, Bhutan has a royal family,
19:14 King Carl XVI Gustaf & Queen Elizabeth II were third cousins. Both share the same great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. He is around the 300th place in the line of succession to the British throne.
Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neal have 1 more daughter Adrienne. Prince Car Philip and Princess Sofia also have 1 more, a son called Julian.
The British royal family got absolute progeny. (The first child inherits) instead of male progeny, for the first time in over 300 years, in 2011. The reason both queen Victoria and queen Elizabeth II was made ruling queens was cause they didn't have any brothers/other close male relatives that was eligble to inherit the throne
King and Queen of Sweden have 8 grandchildren at this time.
Yes. It´s nice with their growing family tree 🙂
All the Europeans monarchys includes british are relatives with eachother. The Swedish and British are even closer familys
Growing up in Germany the Swedish Royal Family has always been popular here, probably due to Queen Silvia’s decendance and they get covered in yellow press media just like the British RF does.
I have made a filet-o-fish hamburger to Prince Carl Phillip when i had a summer job at McDonalds in 2007. I don't know why but i bragged about it to my friends back then 😬🤦♂️🤣
Rightfully so!
Norways royal family next?
The Swedish royal family is related to the british royal family via Queen Victoria
Our swedish Queen had a brazilian Mother, so she had a german father and a brazilian mother.
If I remember well the mother if Queen Silvia is related to the Royals of Portugal and Brazil by a very far illegitimate birth of someone of her ancestors
@@danielaxivitz6188 l have never heard that Queen Silvia of Sweden is in any way connected to Portugal and Brazil in a royal line.
But l will try to find out tho, because now when l think alittle the Queen has a crown called the Brazilian crown, and she got it from Brazil. 🙂
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Yes the Crown is a part of the Jewelleries of the Swedish Royal Family since 19th century.
This Crown was inherited by a swedish Queen ( I dont remember now exactly the name) who wss sister of empress of Brazil
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The Empress of Brazil was Amelia of Leuchtemberg second wife of Emperor Pedro I of the house of Braganza (Portugal)
They had only a daugter whose death was due to the tubercolosis diseas.
She left her jewels to her sister Queen Josephina of Sweden wife of King Oscar l . Among these there was also the " Brazilian tiara " known as " the Braganza tiara ".
Amelie and Josefina were daugthers (with others) of Eugene de Beuharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg , son of Josephine de Beauharnais wife of Napoleon I.
Their mother was Princess Augusta of Bavaria.
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Thank you and you are right. I couldn't get it together first but then l started to recognize some of the older royals. 👑
Lmao... This video explained SOOO much more about our royal family than I already knew. xD
I just realized that I know very little about them. Lmao xD
Christopher O'Neil have a brittish father and "austrian" mother (or sudetgerman, probably born in the part of Tjeck republic that back in the time was a lots of germanspeakers lived in, they was transported or flied after WWII).
Prince Daniel and Princess Sofia have both Finnish ancestors. King Carl Gustav had cousin Conradin Castell from Finland. Conradin was origin from Germany. (King Carl-Gustavs mother Princess Sibylla was origin from Germany.) He died in 2011.
The prince philip used to drive Stcc. car sport . and he is the most earth bound person i met. Was cheking the cars after one of the laps and xD the prince shook hands with people etc.
i first didnt know who the F he was . got supriced when he did see my bags of gifflar ( swedish cinamon bake thingy) and he asked for a couple . i was like well ofc here ya go man. and it clocked thats our damn prince . wtf shall i bow kneel wtf xD . but na he was chill and cool . got way more respect for him after that.
I'm a Swedish scout so I've encountered our king a few times. Our king is an honorary scout and he used to visit the big scout camps in Sweden. (I don't know about nowadays since I haven't been an active scout in 10 years) He would always hold a little speech and do the The Sedish Rocket (his international name for it, usually called Raketen=The Rocket), and when the camps were international we Swedes both got embarrassed and proud at the same time. The Swedish Rocket is a fun way to clap your hands and is used a lot when doing events with kids, you start by clapping your hands slow on either side, then it goes faster and faster, you start stomping your feet and when it gets so fast it's just noice you imitate the sound of a lit fuse, rubbing your hands in the air in front of your mouth and then release it all with your hands up and a shout. I'm describing this because it's a fun thing to see your king do on stage.
Dude, the UK changed the succession law only about ten years ago. If Princess Anne had been a first born child, she still would not have been queen.
Oh wow! I didn’t know that.
With both her personality and devotion to duty, she would have made a great queen!
Yes I'm swedish and looking back in time I'm a Viking and have black hair. DARK BLACK HAIR
👏👏👏
Our King are not able to change any laws and doesn’t usually speak his mind about any politics. But when the Russian ambassador was invited to the Nobel dinner 2022 he spoke up and they took back the invitation quickly. There was a rumor that the King wouldn’t attend the dinner if they didn’t.
Our Kingdom "is not allowed" to have officially hold political views..
If I remember correctly, the Royal Court announced that they were ”surprised” (which must be considered strong language in this context) and that the king hadn’t decided yet whether he would participate in the ceremony. More than that didn’t need to be said.
I don’t think they tell everything for example Sofia and a friend started project playground I Africa a think it’s a school for poor kids. But she had to step down when she became royal. She and the prince today work to find a way to prevent cyber bullying and how to live with dyslexia.
Yes! I wish they talked about their genuine work instead of some old gossip. But just a few add ons: She is still Honorary Chairman of Project Playground and Prince Carl-Philip are honorary board member. Princess Sofia is still sits on the 3 person election committee for the organisation. So they are still involved and worked with it, just not in the same way or capacity, but Project Playground have also grown so much since and they have their other foundation to focus on. :)
They are related to your british family by queen Victoria that was our Kings great great grandmother on his father side. They are also related to the old King Gustav Vasa who was king in Sweden during the 1500's. Napoleon together with Sweden chose Jean Baptist Bernadotte to take the trone in Sweden after Karl XIII. His wife Desideria was engaged to Napoleon but the he met Josephine and broke the engagement with Desideria off and introduced her to Jean Baptiste
Not only by paternal side but also by maternal side.
Princesse Sybilla was also great granddaughter of Queen Victoria by her paternal side.
aaa I did not know that even though Im swedish :D to be fare we hardly have any lecture on our Kings father and mother as they sadly never reigned @@danielaxivitz6188
Yes,-Our king has around 90 lines of descendance from Gustv Vasa. The Danish king Frederik has about 120 lines from Gusrtav Vasa. Yes Napoleon supported the choice of Bernadotte as crown prince in Sweden, but later he (Sweden) went to war against Napoleon.
The British Royal familly had Male preference Primogeniture untill march 2015 with the Perth Agreement. That is why Anne was in line after even her 2 younger brothers. Sweden was the first to go from Male to Absolute Primogeniture in 1980 and at this point big sis Victoria moved ahead of little brother Carl Philip.
Denmark also changed their from Male only to male prefered in 1953 making Margrethe II heir. Firts in 2009 was it changed to absolute but since Margrethe only had sons, there was never a rush. Even 2. in line is male but modern times calles for equality between genders.
The blond hair is a myth when it comes to Sweden that is more accurate with Norway. Fact is that most Swedes have dark hair . (And when I talk about blond I am talking about natural blond hair, which is actually rare). Most Swedes are Brunetts with blue eyes. And our native group , Samer also have more of Dark Hair. So the blond hair Swede myth need to go. :) By the way born and raised in Luleå myself. and have Samiskt (do not know how to spell it in English) ancestry. So the Racist and the Islamophobes in my country that tell people to go back where they came from need to go back to school. Fact is also that Muslims have been in Sweden longer then some that call themselves Swedes.
Well I am n ot one of these "racists", However I am for spiritual reasons, not political, not a supporter of islam, as it denies the very centre of my own faith. But I agree that these who >"expect all Swedes" to be blond are wrong.
Personally I like prince Daniel and princess Sofia a lot, but don't like Chris.
And princess Estelle seems to be the happiest, sweetest little girl there is. She'll be a great queen one day.
I think that is the feelings of most Swedes
@@EEmBYes Estelle is a wonerful girl.
Unfortunately, I can't see any charm in Chris either..
NO ONE likes Chris 😅
@hannam279 Princess Madeleine does, I guess.
Not much is true in that video.
Some examples are the children:
Prince Carl-Philip and Princess Sofia's children were born in 2016, 2017 and 2021
and Princess Madeleine and Mr Chris O'neill's children were born in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
I am Swedish and my daughter have the same colour of skin that you do and her hair IS really dark, acctually black! I am amazed that you say things like ”pure bred”??? We swedes look very different just like you do in Britain. It is hilarous to see/hear all your prejudice!
There can be Queens even if the rule of power is going to the firstborn boy. Historically both in Sweden and England have had several regent Queens but that has been because they have been for example the only child and were particuarly sharp and had a king father that personally didn't care that she was female. Several Queens both in England and Sweden didn't marry anyone as they were expected to do because then their husband would take over the role of ruling the country. So there were so many loopholes a princess had to go through in order to become regent. What King Karl Gustav did was that he eliminated all the loopholes and just made any firstborn a future regent.
No he didn’t. The goverment changed the law. The king wanted hus son to become king
Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Elizabeth are/were third cousins (but once removed) I think. Queen Victoria's granddaughter princess Margaret was the grandmother of king Carl XVI Gustaf, but she died very young.
To clear things up, it wasn’t the king who cange the order of succession, it was parlament and the king was agaisnt it. In UK the order of succession was cange around the time of Prince Georges birth (son of William and Kate). UK have had à LOT of Queens but that is because the ruling king didn’t have a son. In the case of queen Victoria, she was the nice of the king and I belive the only true born child among the kings siblings. Now this videos quite old so Prince Carl Philip had another son and princesa Madeleine had another doughter. The only who I think is working royals are the king and queen and princess Victoria and prince Daniel. The royal family have no power, They only represent Sweden.
But the king was not in principle against female inheritance. He objected to the time the change was made, as his son was allready crown prince when hte new law started being in function.
Dwayne, you do know that Norway and Denmark are kingdoms, too? Only Finland and Iceland of the five Nordic countries are republics...
I didn’t know that no, I’m still learning. I guess I need to check out the Danish and Norwegian Royal Family too.
@@dwaynesview And the Swedish king and the Danish queen are cousins 😂
Fun fact: Prince Daniel was born on 15 Sept 1973, on the excact same day when his father-in-law became king.
Sweden, Norway and Denmark. All the Scandinavian countries have a royal family. And they are all related to each other.
The swedish king and queen elisabeth the 2 is distantly related through queen victoria
Yes, Britain have had 8 female regents, since Empress Matilda, born 1102.
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was the longest-ruling monarch of Great Britain, born 1837.
Wikipedia on the crown princess of Sweden: "Her inheritance is secured by Sweden's 1979 Act of Succession, the first law in Western Europe to adopt royal absolute primogeniture."
The king gave up the last governmental power the position had in 1975, the only remaining ones are ceremonial.
The royal family, as a whole, gets a yearly stipend from the state of about 16 million Euro to maintain the palace, pay staff, as well as to pay for travel and other expenses.
The king/reigning monarch has immunity to prosecution under criminal, though not civil, law. He's also fond of speeding.
The king and the rest of the royal family represents Sweden abroad but does not negotiate for Sweden. Many members of the royal family are engaged in charity work in one way or another
I didn't even know O'neil existed 😅 Daniel and Victoria are fine though, as far as royal families go.
The first line on Wikipedia is: "Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden.."
They are all working royals. Princess Madeleine spends her time divided between NY and Sweden though. She works for Queen Silvias charity "Childhood". They do get money from the state, but it has been cut significantly since a few years, giving the direct line the ones who gets most of the money and the rest a lot less then before.
Quuen Silvia works for a lot of different charitys, the most famous one's are for children's safe upbringing and dementia. The crown princess work's a lot with disabled people and children. Her husband with having a healthy lifestyle, changing the way of thinking from childhood. Carl-Philip (who was born a crown prince, but got the title taken at only around a year old) and his wife works with bullying and ending stigma against dyslexia etc. He is also a racecar driver and also makes art, has his own line of silverwear, sculptures etc.
It's a good royal family whom are all very loved by most of the people. All are excepted and people love to see them out and about.
And both Carl-Philip and Madeleine has one more kid since this was made.
Our king just celebrated 50 years on the throne!!!
It have not been any scandals after this video was created but princess Madeleine and Christopher got a third kid, princess Adrienne and prince Carl Filip and princess Sofia have got a third one to, prince Julian.
Something I find a bit funny is that prince Carl Filip have a tendency to be in lists like ”the best looking princes in the world” and so on. 😅
Haven't seen..But Carl-Philip has so more of charm than the current King had at the time he was crown prince
@@beritsellgrencould be because Carl-Philip have had a much safer and secure upbringing that seems to have been quite healty, while our Kings childhood and upbringing had a lot of trauma, lonliness and difficulty, also in a world that looked very different from when Carl-Philip was born. Also the King became King when he was only 27, and was constantly criticised and mocked because of his dyslexia his while life, specially in the media and by people.
Viktoria is definitely a favorite, she's so down to earth and genuine. It's hard not to like her, she also supports a lot of charities and have hosted the QX-gala (A big LGBTQ+ celebration) before
If Victoria is ready I would like our king to retire in peace and let her rule. I like out royals. They saved Sweden from destruction. We would just be an outpost to Germany or France otherwise.
Yes. As soon as you see the HRH Prince Carl Philip - that reaction of HANDSOME - is very easy to make. Haha! Cheers from Stockholm. (Also it's "Bernadotte". Wrong in the video you're reacting to.) Regarding the father of HRH Queen Sylvia is in fact proven wrong. Her father actually helped people to escape the Nazis. A bit like Schindler.
Exactly!! That correction didn't get much attention and didn't sell as much papers and clicks though, seems that many people will rather believe scandalous lies than factual truths.
The swedish Royal family are descents from Queen Victoria. Our current kings grandmother was Margareth of Connaught. And our Kings mother Princess Sibylla was greatgranddaughter of Queen Victoria as well.
The king and queen now have 8 grandkids. Madeleine has one more daughter and Carl Philip has one more son.
Princess madeleine have 3 children the latest born in 2018. They lived in england for a while and then US and this fall they will be moving to sweden :)
The first king of Sweden 🤯. Well hi was not french and lived thousend years and moore ago.
Yes, and Carl XVI Gustaf is also descended from Erik Segersäll and Olof Skötkonung and others through women marreid into the Bernadotte family.
It was the Swedish parliament (the Riksdag) that changed the law that the firstborn would inherit the throne, regardless if it was a boy or a girl. The king didn't change it, in fact, he was against it.
there are some errors... the king didnt change the order of succession... the Swedish parliament did against the kings wishes, he wanted the prince to be the heir but the government changed the law and hence Victoria as the first born became the heir so not as progressive as the video implied.
Don't want to be "that guy"...but I suggest picking a video with actual (correct) facts instead of this tabloid-style video. This is sadly full of misleading and incorrect information. I mean the creator couldn't even get the surname right. It's Bernadotte not Bernadette, for example.
Honestly…. is there even any like that on RUclips?
@@cendriia3738 😁 You may have a point...
Yes, It´s Bernadotte. (And also the king has through women around 90 lines of descendance from Gustav Vasa.)
Fun fact: The ancestor of the Swedish royal dynasty, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (note: that crappy "documentary" couldn't even get the spelling right!) was (and remains) the first person to be head-hunted for the position of successor to a European throne, based on ability rather than on lineage. He was one of Napoleon's generals, with a distinguished career. Of course, It's also alleged that his wife was a mistress of Napoleon, so the boss was glad to ship him off to the far north. Napoleon did expect his old buddy to secure Swedish support for him in his ongoing wars, but this didn't quite pan out since our capable general and king soon saw that Napoleon's cause was lost and switched sides.
And also Carl XVI Gustaf has around 90 decendance lines from Gustav Vasa, through the women married into the Bernadotte dynasty.
There are videos on RUclips about the European royal families and how they all are related.
Thanks I'll check them out :)
UK changed from oldest son inherit, oldest daughter if no sons in 2013.
Sweden changed from oldest son inherit, daugthers do not inherit at all in 1980.
Worth to note UK has a huge list (5000+) for the sucession they will never run out of heirs. Sweden have a short list, never been bigger than now and there are 11 persons on it.
When there are no heir our Parliament elect a Monarch, and if the last one had daughters it will be one of them, if not had he any sisters then one of them and it if neither... Well that how the first Bernadotte become King of Sweden.
Hello from Finland! I’m pretty sure that the British line of succession was only changed from firstborn son to firstborn child when prince William and princess Katherine were expecting their first child so that if it was a girl, she would be the heir. Before that it was always the first born son. Queens like Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II inhereted the throne only because they didn’t have any brothers. So Sweden was ahead of the game there…
We stan our king, he's an icon
My king is the GOAT, all he does is show up at events, surpass the speedlimits in his bmw m6 (raced him at a redlight once), he used to be a fckboi, now he’s just chillin and keeps on bringing us memes just by being himself. Gotta love him
No. I have seen and heard him twice 2023. He has among other things developed into a very good speaker. And he does a lot of things and I think his work and role are important for the Swedish nation indeed.
oh my god the amount of wrong facts in this....
The Swedish Royal Family (henceforth SRF) have absolutely no say in the ruling of Sweden. That responsibility is fully offloaded to the Parliament. That said, the King does still have a ceremonial function in the "Opening of parliament" where he personally gives a speech, usually about "hopes for a good term of office and a strong leadership for the country moving forward" and declares Parliament opened.
Other than things of that nature, such as presiding over the Nobel Price ceremony, what the SRF mainly does is representation and promotion of the country. And at least some of the members either have their own or strongly support different charities. Queen Silvia even has a childrens hospital named after her for example.