A Showcase of Tiaras at the Royal Banquet for Nobel Prize Laureates 2022

Royal tiaras worn by Swedish royals to Royal Banquet 2022

For two successive events in Sweden, royals gave us a feast of tiaras as they donned different pieces to the two events. On December 11, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted a Royal Banquet for Nobel Prize winners on December 11 at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. 

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
The Swedish Royal Family posed with Nobel Laureates
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
The Royal Banquet for Nobel Prize winners this year
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Princess Cristina, Mrs. Magnuson, the older sister of the King, attended the Royal Banquet

It comes a day after the King handed out the awards for this year's Nobel Prize on December 10, 2022, the death anniversary of the Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed a considerable portion of his wealth to set up a prize for individuals who changed "the history of humanity in a year".

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
The Swedish royals greeted Nobel Laureates

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Crown Princess Victoria greeted Nobel Laureates

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
The King and Queen welcomed Nobel Laureates to the Royal Banquet

The King was supported by his wife, Queen Silvia, their children and in-laws, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Prince Carl Philip, and his wife, Princess Sofia. Also attended the event was the king's older sister, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson. 

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Varmland, and his wife, Princess Sofia

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Duchess of Vastergotland, and her husband, Prince Daniel

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Queen Silvia and one of the Nobel Laureates 

The Royal Banquet is an opportunity for royal watchers to see the royals donning their finest royal regalia and the royal women in their glittering crown jewels, and magnificent gowns. 

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden hosted a banquet for Nobel Laureates
The King and Queen of Sweden 

During the Nobel Prize Awards ceremony, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Princess Sofia, and Princess Christina, wore their respective favorite tiaras, but during the Royal Banquet, they changed to other pieces, well, except for Princess Sofia who always wore her wedding tiara to royal events, only altering the gemstones on the spikes.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden at the Royal Banquet for Nobel Laureates
Crown Princess Victoria wore the Laurel Wreath Tiara

Crown Princess Victoria, who wowed the public with her fairytale look during the Nobel Prize Ceremony, wore a shimmering emerald gown during the Royal Banquet and chose the Laurel Wreath Tiara as her head sparkler. She also paired it with an emerald necklace and earrings.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
The Crown Princess wore a 10-year-old gown ©RoyalFashionPolice IG

It's also amazing to know that Crown Princess Victoria wore an old gown, an emerald green sequins dress designed by Elie Saab, which she first worn in 2012.

The Laurel Wreath Tiara was originally a necklace given by Queen Sophia of Sweden to Princess Margaret when she married the future King Adolf VI Gustaf in 1905. It was inherited by Prince Bertil of Sweden, the uncle of the king. 

Royal tiaras worn by Swedish royals

Prince Bertil commissioned Boucheron in Paris to create a tiara for his wife, Princess Lilian. Boucheron designed the piece reminiscent of a laurel wreath. Princess Lilian bequeathed the tiara to its current owner, Crown Princess Victoria.

Royal tiaras worn by Swedish royals to Royal Banquet 2022
Queen Silvia and her Nine Prong Tiara

Queen Silvia wore the Nine Prong Tiara that originally belonged to Queen Sophia of Sweden (born Princess Sophia of Nassau). This is her least worn tiara among the head sparklers in the Swedish royal collection. But all four Haga princesses (the older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf) have worn this historic tiara.

Princess Sofia, the wife of Prince Carl Philip, chose to wear her wedding tiara, also called the Palmette Tiara, but altered the spikes into pearls. During the Nobel Prize ceremony, she wore the tiara with blue topaz stones as spikes.

Princess Sofia attends the Nobel Prize Royal Banquet
Princess Sofia and her wedding Palmette Tiara

Princess Sofia's versatile Palmette Tiara can be altered into different images. With the spikes can be removed and changed with different gemstones. During her wedding in 2015, the tiara had emeralds as spikes. 

Royal tiaras worn by Swedish royals to Royal Banquet 2022
Princess Sofia of Sweden, Duchess of Varmland

In the span of seven years that she attended royal events, Princess Sofia restyled the tiara into different images, from Pearl to Turquoise to Blue Topaz. But there were occasions when she never added extra gems to the tiara.

The King's cousin, Countess Bettina Bernadotte of Wisborg, the current president of the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings, wore a swag tiara originally worn by Countess Karin Bernadotte, the first wife of her father, Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg.

Countess Bettina Bernadotte of Wisborg
Countess Bettina Bernadotte of Wisborg

The Swag Tiara has a unique design of platinum arches with amethysts, citrines, and sapphires on each spike. Countess Bettina, however, is not the daughter of Countess Karin. Her mother, Sonja, was the second wife of Count Lennart.

Born Prince Lennart of Sweden, Duke of Smaland, and the only child of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Prince Lennart lost his royal titles and inheritance in 1932 when he married the commoner, Karin Nissvandt.

Countess Bettina Bernadotte of Wisborg
Countess Karin Bernadotte's Swag Tiara now worn permanently by Countess Bettina

Much of the massive jewelry collection of his mother, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, had been sold and Prince Lennart, who was made Count of Wisborg by Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, did not have a tiara to offer to his wife. 

He later commissioned a jeweler to create a tiara for his second wife, Countess Sonja, made from the cufflinks he inherited from his grandfather, King Gustaf V of Sweden. This tiara was the one worn by Countess Bettina during the Nobel Prize Awards. 

Count Lennart's profile still appeared on the Swedish Royal House's website. He lived for the rest of his life with his family on Mainau island in Lake Constance, Germany, a property he inherited from his grandmother, Queen Victoria of Sweden, who was born Princess of Baden. He was the second cousin of King Charles III through King George I of Greece,

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