The Crown for the Hereditary Prince of Sweden
So, I wish I could explain this better, but here are the crowns of the princes and princesses of Sweden. These images come from the amazing website Official and Historic Crowns of the World and Their Locations which is an amazing resource for all things crown related. Evidently each Swedish prince and princess had their own crown made based on a standardized template. The effect of all these nearly identical and yet subtly different crowns is rather remarkable–like a beautiful treasure-based version of one of those “spot the difference” games which one sees in the comics pages. Yet somehow it all seems excessive: couldn’t they just have reused one crown (is the one on the top an original?) and spent all of that sweet crown money on weapons research and mentally-ill Strindberg plays? Hmm, now that I say that aloud it occurs to me that actually redundant pointy princely crowns might have been the right way to go…
The crown of Princess Sophia Albertina 1771
The crown of Princess Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta 1778
The crown of Princess Eugenia 1860
The crown of Prince Wilhelm 1902
The crown of Prince Oskar 1844
The crown of Prince Carl 1771
The crown of Prince Frederick Adolf 1771
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March 8, 2014 at 9:05 AM
Daniel Swanepoel
Hi. The reason why so many crowns exist is due to the need for each Prince and Princess to wear one during a coronation. Sweden does not employ a coronation ceremony anymore but did until the late 1800’s. These days a King is just sworn in like a president but in the old days the Kings were crowned and then each Prince and Princess also put on their own Crown at the same time.