The Royalty Nerd

We are one week out from my very favourite royal night of the year: the Nobel Prize ceremony.

The Swedes don’t play when it comes to their jewels; they are serious about the diamonds, pearls, emeralds, amethysts…I could go on. Every year is a sparkling extravaganza for each royal lady in the family and the only downside of the past few years is that we’ve been a princess down; Princess Madeleine has been living in Florida and has missed the past few years.

Sadly, Madeleine is still not attending this year because she hasn’t quite made the move back to Sweden yet. My Nobel Prize dreams for 2024 are high though!

Here is a look back at last year’s jewels as well as my predictions for this year:

Queen Silvia:

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Last year, Queen Silvia wore a purple lace gown with the Napoleonic Amethyst tiara and accompanying jewels.

Silvia has made a bit of a pattern with her tiaras at the Nobel Prize ceremonies. For a few years running, she either wore the Nine Prong tiara or the Leuchtenburg sapphire tiara and would alternate between the two each year. The event for 2021 was very much scaled back and there weren’t any tiaras. In 2020, the COVID pandemic cancelled it entirely. In 2019, she wore the Nine Prong tiara:

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So the Napoleonic Amethysts were a bit of a left field choice. Perhaps she decided on her dress first and the purple stones were the best fit? Who knows. For this year, I think we’ll see the Nine Prong again.

Crown Princess Victoria:

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Last year, Victoria wore the Six Button tiara with a the Vasa earrings and a necklace with both pink and blue diamonds to match her bubblegum pink gown.

Victoria is a bit of a wildcard at the Nobel Prize ceremony (and I love it). There’s a few tiaras that we know she won’t wear: the Bragança, the Leuchtenburg, the Nine Prong, (because those are currently reserved for the Queen of Sweden) and her birthday tiara (because she hasn’t worn it in years, thankfully), which leaves… a lot to choose from.

I have no patterns to follow for this prediction so I’m going on what I want to see. I would love to see Victoria in the Napoleonic Cut Steel tiara.

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In fact, I’d love to see her recreate this entire jewel look from 2016 with pieces from the Cameo suite. The actual Cameo tiara is apparently a bit fragile these days and while it’s Vic’s wedding tiara, it’s unlikely she will wear it again. But she has worn the Cut Steel on many occasions and despite the lack of actual jewels on it, it sparkles with the best of them. I’d love to see it again.

Princess Sofia:

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Princess Sofia wore her wedding tiara with new blue topaz toppers. These go along with the other toppers she has for this piece: diamonds, pearls, emeralds, turquoise, and citrine.

It’s almost a given that she’ll wear this piece again, the big guess is what topper will she will wear, or if she will even debut new ones. For example, some rubies would be nice!

I would love to see it in the pearl setting again for one selfish reason: I love pearls.

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But my biggest wish is for her to finally be let back into the vault. She’s wore tiaras from the family collection before, particularly for past Nobel Prize ceremonies. One of my favourites was when she wore the Cut Steel bandeau:

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This is a tiara that we don’t see often on anyone in the family, so I’d love to see it brought back out again.

Princess Christina:

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Princess Christina wore the Connaught tiara last year for the ceremony, with a pretty butterfly themed dress.

Princess Christina had her own personal tiara stolen and it is now somewhere at the bottom of the sea (but that’s a story for another post). So, she picks from the vault when she needs some jewels for events. I can definitely see Christina reaching for the Connaught again, but I also wouldn’t be mad if she brought out the Six Button:

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Or heck, maybe she could be the one to wear the Cut Steel bandeau again!

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So there are my predictions:

Silvia: Nine Prong

Victoria: Napoleonic Cut Steel

Sofia: Wedding tiara with the pearl toppers

Christina: Connaught

The Nobel Prize ceremony takes place December 10th, and right after that is the King’s Dinner for the Laureates on December 11th. Check back in a week to see the actual jewels!