Global Child Forum 2015 in Stockholm

Today, the King and Queen are hosting the 5th Global Child Forum at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The Royal Couple started the the Global Child Forum in 2009 with the desire to bring together leaders in the fields of children's rights to have a discussion. Their website states, 

"Global Child Forum is an independent, multi-stakeholder initiative for informed dialogue and thought leadership on how to advance children’s rights in support of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Forum gathers leaders and decision-makers from business, government, academia and civil society. By information sharing, exposing leading case studies and learning from best practice from all parts of the world, the initiative work towards a future where children’s rights are respected and supported by all stakeholders in society. Their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden initiated Global Child Forum in 2009"

Today, the King, Queen, Crown Princess, Princess Madeleine, and Princess Sofia were scheduled to attend but due to a mix up in the PR department/security threats, Victoria did not attend.

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Madeleine and Sofia did attend however with the King and Queen. Princess Madeleine came back from London to attend a dinner last night and today's main forum. It is expected that she will fly back to London immediately afterwards. For today, Princess Madeleine wore a cape and top from Zara (huge shoutout to our Facebook Followers for informing us). She also wore her Celine handbag.

Sofia wore a draped top from COS which covered her bump nicely. Her shoes I believe to be the same ones she wore last month from Gant.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American Followers! I am so thankful for all of you (no matter if you are celebrating Thanksgiving or not!!) I will be off celebrating with my family so any updates to this post you can thank Heaven for. 

Happy 1st Birthday!

Today is The Royal's And I's 1st Birthday! Can you believe that it was a year ago today that I started this blog? I can't! It has been a great year- I have met a lot of new people through this blog and we have found lots of new/old ID's! When I started this blog I really did not expect it to grow so much. At the time of writing this we are almost at 70,000 All-Time page views- SEVENTY THOUSAND. That is a lot!

When I started this blog I did not expect that a year later that I

1. Would still be blogging (I had little faith in myself) or 
2.  Have a Co-Blogger. 

If you have not heard/read, Heaven of Queen Rania's Fashion joined the site a month or two ago and has been a great help and friend to me. She has currently been hiding in the background but hopefully in the upcoming year she will write some interesting posts for you all! (I am trying to convince her to share her Nobel Predictions with you but so far she is a little reluctant- so encourage her to write!)

In celebration of the blog's 1st Birthday, I will be continuing the Designer Spotlight Series that I launched last month. My hope is do spotlight 1-2 designers a month. These designers I am picking are going to be ones that have designed for multiple Swedish Royal Ladies and over the course of a few years so that we can see a)The different styles of the different ladies and b) How their fashion has changed over time. If you have ideas about designers that you think should be featured Tweet me, Facebook message me, Email me, or leave a comment!

To finish this post I thought I would share some of my favorite ID's from the past year! (And if you have not heard- We have officially identified 600 pieces for Victoria!)

Visit to Värmland

Today Victoria and Daniel are visiting the province of Värmland. Värmland, as you might recall, is the Duchy of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia.

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A photo posted by Expressen Kungligt (@expressenkungligt) on Nov 18, 2015 at 1:47am PST

I will update later with more details about the visit but I just wanted to get a previsionary post up for now.

Victoria wore a new dress from Seraphine, over which she wore her blue Prada coat. She carried her Valentino bag and I believe she is wearing a new pair of booties which come from af Klingberg.

Advisory Council Meeting

Today Victoria joined her father for an Advisory Council Meeting. This Advisory Council Meeting was held on foreign affairs. The Advisory Council is a council that acts as a consultative mouthpiece between the Parliament and the Government. The King acts as Chairman of this council. Victoria attends when she can as one day she will be Chairwomen.

Later in the day, the King and Victoria held an audience for the Minister of Justice and Migration.

For all these meetings, Victoria wore a dress from ASOS (no longer available online) which we first saw on the tour in South America last month. She wore a new blazer from Seraphine over it and carried her trusty Valentino bag.

The Meeting of 2 Princesses

Yesterday, Princess Ayako Takamado of Japan met with Crown Princess Victoria at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. That is about all the information we were given besides for this photo.

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Victoria wore a new dress which featured a beaded/embellished neckline and a zipper on the back. I believe she brought her Valentino bag with her. She wore a pair of booties that I cannot tell which ones they are.

Designer Spotlight: Fadi el Khoury

I figured I would try to do some feature posts from time to time and see how you all like them. Today, let's look at one of the Swedish ladies go-to couture designer. Swedish-Lebanese designer Fadi el Khoury is just that. He is one of the few Swedish couture designers out there and one of the Swedish ladies favorite. He is not just a favorite of Madeleine and Victoria- Marianne Berandotte, Rebecca Ferguson, Martina Bonnier, and Renata Moncalieri. For Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip's wedding he dressed 15 guests! Talk about popular! It is easy to see why he is such a favorite, his designs focus on simple tailoring and the beauty comes in through the layers and the fabric/embroidery used. (In addition to all this he is super helpful and responds to his emails timely and very kindly)

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Who can forget Crown Princess Victoria's gown from Princess Madeleine's wedding? The greige rosé with tones of eggplant dress was made of hand dyed sided silk organza with layers of hand-colored tulle in three shades, silk threads, lurex threads, pearls and Swarowski crystals of amethyst and opal gray. It sounds just as amazing as it was. 

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Remember Princess Madeleine's two dresses from the Nobel Festivities last December? They both were from Fadi el Khoury and they were stunning as well. The main dress was described as a dress built on layers of silke organza and Italian tulle in shades of greige rosé. Embroidery was done by hand with glass beads, and hand dyed in shades of taupe and burgundy.

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The next day she wore a gown described to be a dusty pink dress with lace and tulle. It took me awhile to track it back to Fadi el Khoury but now that I have, I can see his style in the dress. It features classic tailoring that hid Madeleine's pregnancy very well.

Princess Madeleine wore this dress from Fadi el Khoury for the King's Return Dinner for the 2014 Nobel Laureates pic.twitter.com/XX6iy1LbE7

— Sarah W (@TheRoyalsAndI) August 10, 2015

Fadi also designed another gown for Victoria which she first wore to a friends wedding in the summer of 2013 but then she officially wore it again for the King's dinner for the Nobel Laureates in December. This gown is described as being a dress of gold lame and tulle with embroidery of gold sequins. This same gown as also worn by a guest, a coworker from Childhood, at Princess Madeleine's wedding. 

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel at the dinner for the Nobel Laureates at the Royal Palace. pic.twitter.com/K1EQR0kTDe

— Scandinavian Royals. (@crownprincely) December 12, 2013

In addition to designing gowns, Fadi has also designed a dress for Victoria which she wore in August 2012 when opening up the Mercedes-Benz Stockholm Fashion Week. She opened his show in a special ceremony and then sat and watched in the front row. I thought it was nice that she wore his dress to show support as it was his first showing at Stockholm Fashion Week.

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Victoria later removed the detail from the shoulder and wore the dress again under a coat designed by Fadi when attending the wedding of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg & Stephanie de Lannoy in October 2012. She was a smashing success with this outfit. 

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That brings the grand total pieces that Fadi has designed for our favorite Swedish Ladies to 6 and I know that we will see more pieces in the future. I am crossing my fingers for a gown at the Nobels this year by him! We know he can do maternity wear well considering he hid Madeleine's bump last year! Which of these pieces is your favorite? Leave a comment and let me know! 

Photos from Getty and Twitter

Day 3: State Visit from Tunisia

Today ends the state visit to Sweden from Tunisia. Kungahuset posted on their Instagram this picture of Victoria and Daniel waving goodbye to the Tunisian Presidential Couple as they headed off to Uppsala with the King and Queen for their last part of the visit.

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Victoria re-wore her Seraphine Black and White Polka Dot Silk Dress  which we first saw in October at a meeting in Luxembourg. You can refresh your memory of that outfit HERE. Although the photos are not great, I think she is carrying her Valentino Lock Half-Flap Shoulder Bag. She finished the outfit with black pumps.