#kungahuset

[ifreakingloveroyals]

Through the Years → Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (893/∞) 9 April 2024 | The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel received Prime Minister Pål Jonson at a meeting at the Royal Palace. (Photo by Henrik Garlöv/Kungahuset)

[madeleineoneillofsweden]

I love a state visit especially when it involves Sweden!

[princesssofiaofswedena]

Princess Sofia attends The Nobel Prize ceremony 2022

Credit to the rightful owners

[european-royalties]

📸 Robin Utrecht // dana press via TT #detdanskekongehus #kungahuset https://www.instagram.com/p/CiZYRJ5vST5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[makemycitybreak]

Gotta show yall this one song by my brothers band its like actually good (fuckinh finally🙏🙏)

[duchessofvastergotland]

29th March 2023 // Crown Princess Victoria is in Tbilisi, Georgia for a two day visit. She met with representatives of the EU Monitoring Mission to learn about how the EU is maintaining peace in the area. The visit is being carried out in connection with Sweden's presidency of the EU Council.

[skamenglishsubs]

Young Royals terms explained

One thing I noticed across all seasons, and in the official subtitles, and among fan discussions, is that everyone is throwing around the specific terms used to describe the workings of a monarchy a bit willy-nilly. The subtitles aren't always consistent in how they translate the Swedish terms, and the show never explains what the different ones mean.

In real life, we also use the terms a bit sloppy because it really doesn't matter that much, but I thought I'd take a stab at listing the terms, their best English translation, and what each term means to me.

Monarkin - The Monarchy

This is the political system, the form of government that Sweden, and a bunch of other countries around the world is using. It means that the office of Head of State is held by the head of a family, and is inherited according to whatever inheritance rules apply. The system also implies that you have an explicit class system, an upper class, and that your royals are the pinnacle of this class.

If you're a big fan of the system you're a royalist, and if you're a big fan of the opposite, a republic, you're a republican. Most people typically don't give a shit, though.

Kungahuset - ?

This is a term that the subtitles struggle a bit with, because there's no good English equivalent. It's sometimes translated as the monarchy, sometimes as the royal family, and sometimes as the royal court depending on context. In Swedish, it means the system and the people that inhabit the system. The official homepage of the Swedish royal family is https://www.kungahuset.se/

Kungafamiljen - The Royal Family

This term is used when talking about the royals as a family, it's about them as individuals, as people. In season 2 they mention the tv show "Året med kungafamiljen", which is a real show, and it has that name because it emphasises them as people. The purpose of the show is to make them relatable and human for PR reasons, to show off their quirky character or something.

Det Kungliga Huset - The Royal House

Never used in the show, but I thought I'd mention it anyway because you might be tempted to translate kungahuset like this, but that's a bit off. This term specifically means the monarch and the closest family members that are in the line of succession; it's everyone who is styled as a Royal Highness.

It can also mean the dynasty, the noble house that currently holds the title of king of Sweden. In the real world it's House Bernadotte, but in the show we never got to know the family name.

Slottet - The Royal Palace

The Royal Palace is the office of the monarch, the place where the work is done, it's where you would meet the royals for meetings, it's just like how a regular office is used for a regular business, it's their "HQ". The term is used pretty much how you would use "The White House" as both the building itself and the office of the president of the United States.

In the show, there's only one royal palace which serves as both residence and office. However, in the real Sweden, the royal family has two big palaces, the main one in the middle of Stockholm, and Drottningholm just outside. The main one is the office, where they work, and Drottningholm is their private residence, where they live most of the time.

Hovet - The Royal Court

In ye olden days, the court consisted of the king, his family, his servants, and the foremost nobles, advisors, and officials who hung around and essentially made up the executive branch of government. These days the court simply means the organisation that supports the royals in their official duties, it's all of their employees, and in the real Sweden the court has about 300 of them. Some of them still have funny titles like the Marshal of the Realm or Governor of the Royal Palaces, but think of those guys as the the vice presidents or directors or chiefs of staff of a normal company.

If you ever see something like "the court says", it means that the people working in the office of the monarch had a meeting and made a press release about something.

In the show there's a few named members of the court; Minou and Farima both appear to work for the PR department, while Jan-Olof is probably Marshal of the Court or something.

Kronan - The Crown

Just like in English, this term can mean the physical crown, the little golden hat with gems and stuff that is the symbol of the monarchy, but most often it means any legal entity that is the country itself, if that makes sense. For example, in Sweden, we think of the military, and all military equipment as "kronans egendom" - "property of the crown", and the single largest landowner in Sweden is technically a government-owned forestry company, but we think of their land as "kronans mark" - "crownlands".

The reason for this usage is that once upon a time all of these things were actually the personal property of the king, and inherited along with the office, but they've had to give it all up through consecutive political reforms. So, paradoxically, everything that is the property of the crown is actually owned by the people of Sweden through the government, while any personal belongings of the royal family isn't property of the crown.

[theroyalsandi]

Swedish Royal Family - Kungahuset released a photo of Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar in celebration of Saint Lucia Day. The photo was taken by their mother, Crown Princess Victoria at The Hague | December 13, 2023

[ifreakingloveroyals]

8 September 2023 | Before the anniversary week, when The King celebrates 50 years on the throne, new photographs of the Royal Family are published. (c) Clément Morin/Kungahuset

[madeleineoneillofsweden]

I just love the Swedes and how they are so relatable.

[princesssofiaofswedena]

New photo released today Of Prince Gabriel in honour of his 5th birthday today

"Today we celebrate the 5th birthday of our lovely and humble Gabriel ❤️"

Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia

[andiatas]

kungahuset: Happy 80th birthday grandma! ❤️

[royalchildreneurope]

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Oscar of Sweden visit Norra Djugården to scout for birds ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd 2024, in Stockholm, Sweden -May 21st 2024.

📷 : Sara Friberg/Kungahuset.

[charlotte-of-wales]

kungahuset: Happy National Day!

[victorysp]

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel welcoming King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark during the first Day of the Danish State Visit to Sweden. May 6, 2024.

📷 kungahuset

[duchessofvastergotland]

"In order to further deepen her commitment within the Armed Forces, Crown Princess Victoria will begin special officer training (SOFU) in the autumn of 2024."

-Kungahuset

Victoria previously did basic soldier training at the Swedish Armed Forces International Centre and completed a training programme across the Armed Forces in 2022-23.