Spanish State Visit to Sweden.Photo: IBL/Shutterstock
When the Spanish and Swedish royal families get together, prepare for some glitz!
The Swedish royals hosted King Felipe andQueen Letiziaof Spain for an official visit, which is never complete without a glamorous gala-style State Banquet. They gathered on Wednesday evening at the Royal Palace in Stockholm — but not before dipping into their jewelry vaults.
Queen Letizia.BL/Shutterstock
Queen Silvia and King Felipe.IBL/Shutterstock
Princess Victoria of Sweden.IBL/Shutterstock
Princess Sofiawore her ownwedding tiarato top off her white ensemble, adding to her bridal vibes. Although the sparkler, a gift from the King and Queen Silvia, was topped with emeralds for her walk down the aisle, the 36-year-old mom of three boys withPrince Carl Philiphas replaced the emeralds with pearls.
Princess Sofia of Sweden.IBL/Shutterstock
The Spanish monarch’s visit marks the first Spanish State visit to Sweden in over 40 years — but the two kings are distantly related. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and King Felipe VI of Spain are both descended through Queen Victoria from their respective grandmother, Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden, and great-grandmother, Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain.
The families' agendas during the trip included visiting the Nobel Museum and the two queens seeing the Karolinska Institutet.
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The Netherlands’Princess Catharina-Amaliahas yet to wear a tiara in public, but her new authorized biography revealed that the future queen has been trying on her mom Queen Maxima’s headpieces since she was a little girl andloves the jewels.
She told biographer Claudia de Breij, “I love tiaras. Show me a tiara, and I’ll know where it came from. I can recognize all the tiaras of Europe. I used to put them on from my mother. Then there would be one on her make-up table and I would have it directly on my head.”
She continued, “I really liked to be in my mother’s jewelry anyway. When I was very little. She was preparing for an important dinner and she shouted around the house, ‘Amalia, where’s that ring?’ "
source: people.com
