ICYMI: Photo of Oscar

In case you missed it, the Court released a photo of Victoria with Oscar and Estelle with Oscar as a part of a Thank You Message from the Crown Princess Couple.

A photo posted by Kungahuset (@kungahuset) on Mar 24, 2016 at 1:02am PDT

They attached the following message:

"We would like to convey our sincere gratitude for all the kind greetings and congratulations we have received in connection with Princess Estelle's birthday and the birth of Prince Oscar.

We genuinely appreciate your kindness and that so many of you share our happiness."

Victoria is wearing a top from Baum und Pferdgarten in the newest photo. Estelle is wearing one of Victoria's old dresses. (Victoria wore it back in 1982 to Madeleine's Te Deum)

UPDATED: Prince Oscar Carl Olof!

This morning the King announced the newest Bernadotte Prince's name- Oscar Carl Olof! He will be called Prince Oscar and is Duke of Skåne. The King said that he had not met the littlest one yet as he has the Flu and they want to be careful with germs- but he was hopeful that he would get to meet him this afternoon. The Court published this photo of the new family of 4 going home from the hospital.

This afternoon the entire Royal Family (minus Victoria) attended the Te Deum for Prince Oscar. Princess Madeleine who was here in Stockholm for the birth attended as well as her husband Chris O'Neill- even though he was not originally on the calendar to attend. I imagine he flew over from London last minute. 

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Princess Estelle also attended looking very adorable in a jacket that had once been worn by her Aunt. I think she is wearing the same Marie Chantal dress that she wore in her 4th Birthday photos. 

Queen Silvia pulled out a blue suit to celebrate the new prince's arrival and Princess Sofia also wore a new blue dress. This dress, while it is still unconfirmed, is from Ida Lanto- the same designer of 2 other maternity dresses she has worn recently. She wore black pumps and carried a new clutch which appears to be from Diane von Furstenberg. Her hat was made by Swedish Milliner Malinda Damgaard.

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Princess Madeleine wore green ensemble- the coat we have seen before as she wore it when she was pregnant with Leonore in 2013 while attending an event for Min Stora Dag. (Don't read too much into her wearing it while pregnant- it was early in the pregnancy and not maternity) She paired it with a dark green skirt or dress- hard to say from the photos, and new green boots from Tod's. The boots are a few years old but the first time she has been photographed wearing them. (Huge thanks to @PrincessanSofia for the find) She carried what appears to be her Angel Jackson and her necklace looks to be from Marni.

You can see more photos from the Te Deum Service at Svenskdam. I think that wraps up this morning's excitement for now. I will update the post if new fashion finds are found.

Photos from Kungahuset.se and Getty Images

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

God Jul och Gott Nytt År!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday and are well rested for the New Year! In honor of the Holiday Season, I wanted to share these 2 dresses that Leonore recently wore that were actually worn by Princess Madeleine as a child!

Both dresses can be seen on Princess Madeleine as photos 2 and 3 in the slideshow! Click HERE!

This first dress we see on Princess Leonore in a photo published by Princess Madeleine in celebration of Queen Silvia's Birthday! Madeleine herself wore this dress during the Victoriadagen Celebrations of 1984.

This other photo posted by Princess Madeleine shows Leonore wearing a dress that Madeleine wore during the Christmas Celebrations and Video of 1983.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to Royal Watching with you in the New Year!

Photos Credit go to Princess Madeleine on her Facebook Page. All rights belong to her. Sadly I own nothing. 

Saturday Catch-Up

Yesterday there were a bunch of photos of different outings from the Swedish Ladies from the past few days- but I was just plum too tired to post about them. (I had my own Julmarknad to attend to...)

Speaking of Julmarknad (Christmas Markets)- Victoria, Daniel, and Estelle attended one at the Royal Stables yesterday.

A photo posted by Kungahuset (@kungahuset) on Nov 28, 2015 at 3:59am PST

This was not an announced visit but something I imagine they were doing as a family and the court decided to release photos afterwards. One distinct piece of clothing I can ID is Estelle's coat. You may recognize it as being the same coat she wore to pick up the Christmas trees at the palace last year- or you could recognize it from the 1970s when Victoria wore it. I was surprised to see it again- I figured a year later Estelle would not fit into it as kids grow like weeds but I guess I was wrong!

Another outing that was pictured yesterday was Sofia attending a Friday Night soccer/football game apart of a new Project Playground initiative. They are sponsoring an event where refugee children get to connect and meet others in similar places as them through playing on a large field after hours.

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My great Facebook and Twitter followers alerted me that she was wearing a top from IRO and pants that may be from Isabella Oliver Maternity. (I really don't know about the pants- the photos are too blurry to say for sure so I am not going to post them on the blog)

I think that is all for news that I have missed. Let me know if I forgot something dear readers! 

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!