Today, the Queen of Sweden celebrates her birthday. In her honor, let’s take a look at the family’s appearance at the annual Swedish Academy ceremony this weekend, which featured plenty of diamonds, pearls, and velvet.
The Swedish Academy is the authority on the Swedish language. Modeled on the Académie française, it has eighteen members, and its responsibilities include compiling Swedish dictionaries and grammar texts. The academy also awards numerous prizes and selects the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature every year.
In December, the academy holds its annual grand ceremony each year on December 20, with members of the Swedish royal family in attendance. This year, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia were joined at the ceremony by Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel.
Queen Silvia wore a midnight blue ensemble for the ceremony, including a jacket embroidered with sparkling beads. All four of the royals wore the insignia of the Order of the Seraphim, and Victoria and Silvia both wore the King’s Royal Family Order.
Silvia wore pearls for the ceremony: a pair earrings with pearl and diamond cluster studs and pearl drops, paired with her multicolored pearl necklace. She positioned the necklace so the pavé-set diamond clasp was visible in front.
Crown Princess Victoria also chose dark blue velvet for the ceremony. She has worn the gown three times for this specific event, in 2021, 2023, and 2025. (Last year, she wore the red version of the same dress.) UFO No More tells us that it’s a Camilla Thulin dress in the shade “petrol.” As the name suggests, the dress’s color reads differently in various lights, sometimes blue, sometimes almost green.
With the dress, Victoria wore a modern pair of emerald earrings, a necklace with delicate gold beads, and her diamond rosette brooch. The brooch is a special family piece: it was a gift from her great-uncle and great-aunt, Prince Bertil and Princess Lilian.
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