19-579: The Swedish royal family owns a historic collection of jewels – some owned by the Bernadotte family foundation and others by private individuals. They are separate from the state regalia of Sweden which is owned by the Swedish state. The jewels are worn on occasions such as state banquets , the Nobel Banquet , the annual Representationsmiddag (Representation dinner) and royal weddings. They are maintained by
38-489: A duke to the heir of a ducal title. The younger sons of a noble titleholder used one of the family's lesser titles, but rarely one of duke or prince. Even in untitled families of the nobility, every son used a different territorial designation , the so-called nom de terre . The daughters used the title of mademoiselle , followed by the name of a manor owned by their father. For example, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle ),
57-429: A foundation, now part of the Bernadotte family foundation. These pieces do not belong to the royal family privately, but they can borrow them from the foundation to wear. A parure is a set of matching jewellery to be used together which first became popular in 17th-century Europe. Swedish royal family The Swedish royal family ( Swedish : Svenska kungafamiljen ) since 1818 has consisted of members of
76-615: A genuine member of the noblesse d'épée the custom was tolerated in French society. A common practice is title declension , when cadet males of noble families, especially landed aristocracy, may assume a lower courtesy title than that legally borne by the head of their family, even though lacking a titled seigneury themselves. For example, the eldest son of the Duke of Paris (substantive title) may be called Marquis de Paris (courtesy title) and younger sons Comte N. of Paris , where N. stands for
95-422: A large jewel collection with her when she married the future Gustaf V in 1881, as did Princess Margaret of Connaught when she married the future Gustaf VI Adolf in 1905. Karl XIV Johan established a fideicommissum of jewels that would be at the queen's disposal, so that the collection would increase but could never decrease. At the end of the 19th century, Oscar II transformed the fideicommissum into
114-519: A noble, rather than a royal one, since she was not the daughter of a king. Historically confirmed monarchs are listed officially by the Swedish Royal Court . Until the 1620s Swedish provinces were granted as territorial appanages to royal princes which, as dukes thereof, they governed semi-autonomously. Beginning during the reign of Gustav III , and as codified in § 34 of the 1772 Instrument of Government , provincial dukedoms have existed in
133-527: A rare occasion also as a rank of nobility (such as Fursten Prince Frederick William of Hessenstein ), or as a courtesy title for an ex-dynast (such as Prins Oscar Bernadotte ). The Swedish Royal Court lists the following persons as members of the Royal House ( Kungl. Huset ): The Royal Court lists the following persons additionally as members of the Royal Family ( Kungl. Familjen ): * Member of
152-491: Is the ancestor who holds the title substantively. By extension, the children not only of all peers but of those who bear derivative courtesy titles as male-line descendants of a substantive peer bear specific titles ( Lord / Lady ) or styles ( The Honourable ) by courtesy. Under United Kingdom law , users of courtesy titles of nobility are held to be commoners , eligible for election to the House of Commons rather than being members of
171-568: The Swedish Royal House of Bernadotte , closely related to the King of Sweden . Today those who are recognized by the government are entitled to royal titles and styles (manner of address), and perform official engagements and ceremonial duties of state. The extended family of the King ( Swedish : Sveriges kungliga familj ) consists of other close relatives who are not royal and thus do not represent
190-404: The Royal House (Kungl. Huset) ** Member of the Royal Family (Kungl. Familjen) Courtesy title A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but is rather used by custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility , the titles used by children of members of the nobility (cf. substantive title ). In some contexts, courtesy title is used to mean
209-467: The country officially. A Swedish royal family , as closely related to a head of state, has been able to be identified as existent from as early as the 10th century A.D. , with more precise detail added during the two or three centuries that followed. An exceptional case is that of Saint Bridget (1303–1373) who outside of Sweden became known as the Princess of Nericia , a title which appears to have been
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#1732868829411228-481: The court jeweller, W. A. Bolin . Much of the Swedish royal family's jewel collection originates from when Princess Joséphine of Leuchtenberg --granddaughter of Napoléon Bonaparte 's first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais -- married the future Oscar I in 1823. Joséphine, known in Sweden as Josefina, also received a large inheritance of jewels from her sister, Empress Amélia of Brazil . Princess Viktoria of Baden brought
247-482: The first name. In the hereditary Napoleonic and Restoration peerage, declension was a legal right of younger sons, the derivative title being heritable by male primogeniture; King Joseph Napoleon conferred the title "Prince" on his grandchildren in the male and female line. During the Ancien Régime , the only substantive titles were feudal , land-based and required a royal grant or royal recognition. In order to use
266-401: The more general concept of a title or honorific such as Mr. , Mrs. , Ms. , Miss , Madam , Sir for those who not been awarded a knighthood or a baronetcy, as well as Dr. for physicians who have not actually achieved a doctorate. In Europe, including France, many titles are not substantive titles but remain titres de courtoisie , and, as such, are adopted unilaterally. When done by
285-465: The name of the principal title of their father. Members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta used the title of chevalier in the same fashion. The heir apparent of a titled nobleman used one of the lesser titles of his father as a courtesy title. In the 17th century, the heirs of the most powerful dukes were sometimes allowed to assume the title of prince. In the 18th century, a trend
304-408: The royal family as nominal non-hereditary titles only, without any inherent property ownership or trust attached to them; although several members of the royal family have maintained a special public connection to, and sometimes a secondary residence in, "his or her duchy". The son of a Swedish king has usually held the princely title as a royal dynast (such as Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland ), but on
323-424: The title of count, one had to own a seigneurie elevated to county and to comply with the remainder of the grant. These legal prescriptions, however, came to be consistently enforced only with respect to the title of duke ( duc ). Most titles were self-assumed courtesy titles, even those used at the royal court and in legal documents. Clergymen before episcopal ordination used the title of abbé , followed by
342-405: Was for the heir to use the title of duke. It was achieved in one of three ways: if the head of family held two dukedoms, his heir could use the junior one; the head of family could resign his French peerage to his heir, who assumed a new title of duke while the father retained his ducal title; the king could confer a brevet de duc , that is formally accord the non-hereditary style and precedence of
361-430: Was the eldest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans ( Monsieur ) and his first wife Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier . Anne Marie Louise was officially known as Mademoiselle from the time of her birth. The United Kingdom has a detailed system of courtesy titles and styles by which the eldest son, male-line grandson or great-grandson and heir of a peer may use a subsidiary title of his ancestor even though it
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