Swedish Royal Family
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The Swedish Royal Family (Swedish: Kungafamiljen) since 1818 has consisted of a number of persons in the Swedish Royal House of Bernadotte, closely related to the King of Sweden. Today those who are recognized by the government are entitled to royal titles and style (manner of address), and perform official engagements and ceremonial duties of state. The extended family of the King (Swedish: kungliga familjen) consists of other close relatives who are not royal and thus do not represent the country officially.
History
A Swedish royal family has been able to be identified as existent from as early as the 10th century A.D., with more precise detail added during the two or three centuries that followed. Historically confirmed monarchs are listed officially by the Swedish Royal Court.
Until the 1620s Swedish provinces were granted as territorial appanages to royal princes which, as dukes thereof, they governed semi-autonomously. Since then, these provincial dukedoms have existed in the royal family only nominally, albeit each prince and princess traditionally maintains a special public connection to, and sometimes a secondary residence in, "his or her duchy".
The son of a Swedish king has usually held the princely title as a royal dynast (such as HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden, Duke of Halland), but on a rare occasion also as a rank of nobility (such as Fursten Prince Frederick William of Hessenstein), or as a courtesy title for an ex-dynast (such as Prins Oscar Bernadotte).
Current members
According to the Swedish Government, the Royal Family includes the following:[1]
- HM King Carl XVI Gustaf
- HM Queen Silvia (the King's wife)
- HRH Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland (the King's elder daughter)
- HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (the King's son-in-law, husband of Crown Princess Victoria)
- HRH Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland (the King's granddaughter, daughter of Crown Princess Victoria)
- HRH Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (the King's only son)
- HRH Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (the King's younger daughter)
Royal Court
The members of the Swedish Royal Court (Kungliga Huset) are the Royal Family (see above) as well as:
- HRH Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern (the King's second sister)
Extended family
Not recognized by the Swedish government as members of the Royal Family, but officially considered part of the King's extended family (kungliga familjen) are:[2]
- Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (the King's widowed first sister)
- HSH Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (the King brother-in-law, husband of Princess Birgitta)
- Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (the King's third sister)
- Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld (the King brother-in-law, husband of Princess Désirée)
- Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (the King's fourth sister)
- Mr. Tord Magnuson (the King brother-in-law, husband of Princess Christina)
- HE Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg (the King's aunt, widow of Count Sigvard Bernadotte, uncle of the King)
- HE Countess Gunnila Bernadotte of Wisborg (the King's aunt, widow of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte, uncleof the King)
- Princess Kristine Bernadotte (widow of the King's grandfather's cousin, Prince Carl Bernadotte)
Unofficial member
A member of Carl Gustaf's immediate family who however is not clearly specified by the Swedish Royal Court as a member of kungafamiljen or kungliga familjen, nor as not such, is:
- Mr. Christopher O'Neill (the King's son-in-law, husband of Princess Madeleine)
See also
- Monarchy of Sweden
- Dukes of Swedish Provinces
References
External links
- Swedish Royal Court
- Complete list of Swedish royals, chronologically, on Swedish Wikipedia.
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