Victoria at the Royal Academy

On Friday, March 20th, Crown Princess Victoria attended the annual celebration for the Royal Academy of Science at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Victoria is the first royal honorary member.

Victoria rewore her teal-green gown from Pronovias as well as her hair accessory from Jenny Packham.

Victoria at ICC and Madeleine with Childhood

So far this week, Victoria has had 1 surprise engagement ( meaning she attended an event that was not listed on her calendar available online) and 1 scheduled.  Last Friday, March 13, she attended the Swedish ICC Annual Meeting at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. ICC is the International Chamber of Commerce. This post got delayed because we did not get photos until yesterday.

 We did not get very good photos from this event, most likely because it was not made public, but from the photos we got I can tell that Victoria is wearing her white blouse from Greta.

She appears to be wearing a leather skirt and carrying a large black clutch from Hunkydory.

Another event of Victoria's that was unexpected was her attendance at a luncheon for the sponsors of Gundua Society, of which she is patron. Gundua's goal is to promote reading and writing in developing countries. A very lofty goal I must say (coming from the mouth of a future educator) but very necessary.

For this event we have 1 blurry photo and this photo above from Gundua's Facebook page. I believe Victoria is wearing her By Malene Birger necklace and I think that is her Mayla jacket but it is difficult to see the pockets to verify.

And finally Madeleine attended a board meeting for World Childhood Foundation today but I have no clue what she was wearing because 1. She was sitting behind a table 2. Madeleine's wardrobe is less predictable than Victoria's. (But I am working on figuring it out)

Photos from Kungahuset.com and Facebook

Victoria's Nameday

Today Victoria and Estelle were at Stockholm Royal Palace to celebrate Victoria's name day. Check out their matching looks!

Victoria rewore her Purple Prada coat and matched it with a black dress and black boots. No clue on the designer of either of those. She also wore her purple Charlotte Bonde earrings.

 Estelle looked lovely in her Livly Lisa coat in dark purple.

UPDATE: Victoria also wore her Carolina Gynning necklace.

Photo from Expressen

How to find "Old" Fashion

So I posted on Facebook a week or two ago wondering if anyone would be interested in me writing about how I go about finding "old" royal fashion. This is not as easy because you cannot just go and look on websites like "Neiman Marcus" or "Wakakuu" to see what is new and find matches- you have to look on the depths of the Internet to find these pieces and often it can take you forever because you don't know the designer. It is quite frankly exhausting and can be very frustrating and disappointing if you do not have a system down.

My Golden Rule when it comes to finding old fashion is "Searching for the style will almost always NOT get you to the item"- yep. That would be the easy way!! When it comes to finding old royal fashion (Okay- before I get to far into this article let me describe what I mean by OLD- I mean things that were worn 6 months or more ago and never identified) you want to search by designers. What I like to do is use websites like Ebay, Vestiaire Collection, or The Real Real and look under designers. When going about this you

1. Need to have an unhealthy memory of the royals clothing OR
2. Make a Pinterest board or Folder on you computer of pieces you want to identify. 

I have done both. (My Pinterest board is private so you won't find it if you were about to go searching for it- but I guess I could make it public if there was an interest)

So now I am going to discuss HOW TO USE EBAY TO THE FULLEST POTENTIAL. Yep- that had to be in caps lock- just really needed to emphasis that. First- start with your countries Ebay website- now I would suggest searching a designer- Say we want to look for a dress of Victoria's from 2010, we can look back at the already identified pieces of hers from that time and see that she wore L.K. Bennett a lot during that time. So we want to search L.K. Bennett and then click dresses. Now go down and make sure you have the Worldwide option clicked for shipping- this will widen your results. It may seem like a daunting amount of dresses to go through but truthfully it is not that bad. When you have finished those results- don't feel discouraged if you don't find anything- there is still more searching to be done. NOW (I really am a fan of caps lock tonight) go back to the side menu and check off Sold Items - yep- you can search items that have already been sold... SO HELPFUL. And if you get through that and want to continue searching for L.K. Bennett dresses, you can go back to the main page and scroll to the bottom and switch countries- this is currently my favorite feature. If there is a designer who hails from Spain- Spain's Ebay could hold more for you than say the United States. 

This is how I do my finds- also sometimes I find it to be better to set the sorting to be from Highest to Lowest so you don't get the knock-offs in the mix.

Feel free to send any other questions or comments my way- I really love interacting with you all! Makes this fun for me! 

Happy Hunting! 

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Almost all of our favorite royal family attended Day 1 in Falun today- including little Estelle!

How sweet is she?! :D She was wearing Helly Hanson snow pants as well as a Helly Hanson Jacket. This is the same snow wear she was seen wearing in Verbier this weekend. Estelle also wore the official team hat of the 2014 Sochi Olympics from H&M.

For the rest of the family it was matchy-matchy with the official jackets and hats of the event from Beyond Skiing.

Silvia however did slip underneath her jacket a coat designed by her son. (From Bernadotte & Kyleberg AB)

Victoria also wore her butterfly earrings from Kreuger Jewellery- one of my favorites!

Victoria's Suit by Armani

Lately, Ebay has become my favorite website. Not because I am buying anything but because you can find the best Royal ID's there! If you notice the many new ID's on the side pages you can tell some of them come from Ebay!

I normally just look at one designer and check the current and past listings and then move to the next designer. It is a process but to me it is fun. Other times I might search for a design style in a category and that is how I find something. That is exactly how I found this jacket of Victoria's.

I know it is not an exact match but it most certainly is the same design. This Suit is from Armani Collezioni. I believe it is from their 2008 collection but please don't quote me on that! For those of you who are still unsure which outfit of Victoria's I am talking about- let me refresh your memory.

Opening of the Government in 2009 

Carl Johan Bernadotte's Funeral in 2012 

Princess Lilian's Funeral in 2013

Kristine Bernadotte's Funeral in 2014

Off my memory I can only remember these 4 times she has worn this jacket but it remains my favorite. I love the uniqueness of the puckering pleats in the front. Very classy! What do you think? 

Representation Dinner at the Palace

This evening the Swedish Royal Family held their first Representation Dinner of the year at the royal palace in Stockholm. All of the Swedish Ladies were there in lovely gowns.

Madeleine wore a new dress by Pronovias and Victoria rewore one of her gowns from Escada. She originally wore this dress back in 2011. Victoria wore the 6 Button tiara (my favorite) and Madeleine wore a tiara we have not seen in a while- her Aquamarine Bandeau. I am not sure how I feel about it. It certainly matches the dress but I never have really been a fan of this tiara. Victoria also seems to be wearing her Roger Vivier shoes. I image them to be the cream pair.

Madeleine's gown reminds me a lot of her 2nd gown from the Nobel Celebrations but Pronovias has denied that it is theirs. 

Sofia was also there and wore a new gown from Kay Senchai. 

Sofia carried her go to By Malene Birger clutch.