This December 10, 2022, the royal family of Sweden attended the presentation of the Nobel Prizes by King Carl XVI Gustaf during a ceremony organized at the concert hall in Stockholm. After the ceremony, the laureates and members of the royal family were invited to a sumptuous banquet at the town hall. Crown Princess Victoria wore the rosebud tiara and a lavish pink dress. This tiara is extremely symbolic for the royal family.
Crown Princess Victoria in pink at the 2022 Nobel Prize ceremony
The last Nobel Prize ceremony took place as usual in 2019. The 2020 and 2021 editions had been disrupted by the pandemic. On December 10, 2022, the ceremony returned to its usual splendor and the winners of previous years were also invited to join the celebrations to which they were not entitled.
King Carl XVI Gustaf annually awards a medal and a diploma to the Nobel Prize winners in the various categories. The prize comes with a financial reward of 10 million crowns, or approximately 920,000 euros. December 10 is chosen for this ceremony, in reference to the date of death of the Swedish industrialist and scientist Alfred Nobel, December 10, 1896. At the same time, a similar ceremony is always organized in Norway. Only the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, while the Nobel Prizes in Economics, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics and Literature are awarded in Stockholm.
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The diamond rosettes of the tiara come from the coronation crown of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
The royal family of Sweden always puts on its thirty-one to attend this ceremony which is prolonged with a banquet offered by the Nobel Foundation at the town hall of Stockholm. Queen Silvia wore a purple dress to match her amethyst tiara. Crown Princess Victoria looked very regal in her pink dress by Camilla Thulin. She wore the rosebud tiara on her head.
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The rosebud tiara is relatively recent. It first appeared on Princess Lilian’s head around her wedding to Prince Bertil in the late 1970s. On the other hand, the six diamond rosettes that adorn the jewel are very symbolic and are more than 200 years old ‘story. The six rosebuds are mounted on three rows of diamonds and come from a coronation jewel of the first king of the Bernadotte dynasty.
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The six diamond rosettes, the two at the ends of which are different from the four at the center, come from the crown used at the coronation of King Charles XIV John of Sweden, first king of the Bernadotte dynasty, in 1818.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, originally from Béarn, was one of the 18 marshals of the French Empire. Appreciated by Napoleon, the Emperor raised the town of Ponter Corvo in Italy to a duchy and made Jean-Baptise the sovereign prince of Ponte Corvo in 1806. A few years later, his destiny was to change when he was approached to become Crown Prince of Sweden to succeed Charles XIII of Sweden.
In Sweden, the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty is faltering. Sweden loses the war in Finland in 1809. Finland is recovered by Russia. Politicians held King Gustave IV Adolphe responsible and he was forced to abdicate. In order not to compromise the monarchy and to preserve his dynasty, Gustave IV Adolphe agrees to abdicate in favor of his uncle, Prince Charles, Duke of Sudermania, who therefore becomes king, under the name of Charles XIII.
This abdication had the expected effect, the monarchy no longer seemed threatened. On the other hand, the choice of Charles XIII as sovereign was not the wisest. He is already 60 years old, he has no legitimate male descendants and develops premature senility. The Swedish parliament chose to assign him an heir, Prince Christian Auguste of Slovenia-Holsatie-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. The king adopted it in 1810, but Christian Auguste died suddenly. The parliament then chooses a new heir to the king and it is Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte who attracts the favors of the parliamentarians.
On October 20, 1810, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte set foot for the first time in Sweden. The day before, he had been converted to Lutheranism in Denmark. On October 30, he met King Charles XIII and Queen Hedwig for the first time. On November 5, 1810, he took the oath and was officially adopted by the king and changed his first name, becoming Karl Johan (Charles-Jean).
On February 5, 1818, King Charles XIII died. Charles-Jean ascends the throne the next day. He was officially crowned King of Sweden at Stockholm Cathedral on May 11 and was crowned King of Norway at Trondheim Cathedral in September of the same year. His wife, Désirée Clary is also crowned at the same time as her husband, as Queen Desideria of Sweden.
