On Saturday, June 13, 2015, His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden will finally marry his longtime love, Miss Sofia Hellqvist, inside the magnificent Slottskyrkan (royal chapel) at the Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm.
If you are interested in watching the royal wedding Sveriges Television (SVT) will, thankfully, broadcast the entire extravaganza — live online — beginning at 2 P.M. Stockholm time. The broadcast will include pre-wedding ceremony festivities (hence a lot of chit-chatting between the fantastic SVT journalists as well as royal and etiquette experts), the entire royal wedding ceremony, the incredibly long carriage ride through the streets of Stockholm, the glorious gala reception, long speeches, the cutting of the cake, and so forth.
For those of you who were fortunate enough to watch the 2010 royal wedding live between HRH Crown Princess Victoria and Mr. Daniel Westling, well, SVT‘s upcoming broadcast of Prince Carl Philip’s wedding is reportedly going to be shown in similar fashion.
Anyway, onto the who’s who royal guest-list. So far confirmed guests include:
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark
Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium
Her Majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands
Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex
Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
Her Highness Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Mr. Ari Behn
Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado
At this time members of the Spanish royal family, the royal house of Jordan, the grand-ducal family of Luxembourg nor the princely family of Monaco have confirmed their attendance. Royals from non-reigning houses who may attend the royal wedding include His Highness Prince Andreas of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, Their Highnesses Hereditary Prince Hubertus and Hereditary Princess Kelly of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (who is due to give birth to her second child in July), the entire Greek royal family, and perhaps a few royals here and there from Germany, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Now, if you want to follow the wedding with other royal watchers via Twitter and/or Instagram the official hashtags will be #kungaligbröllop2015 and #royalwedding2015.
To wrap things up the entire royal wedding will be broadcast live on SVT beginning at 2 P.M. Stockholm time. Please click here for the direct SVT link. Bookmark it.
Furthermore, SVT is known to be a quite generous network so if you missed the royal wedding live there is a good chance SVT will re-broadcast the event on their site for several days. Basically, if you missed royal wedding I’m sure it will be online for a week or so after Saturday’s event. If not, I’m sure someone will upload the whole wedding onto You Tube, Vimeo, and/or Daily Motion at some point.
Need a timezone convertor? Click here to find out when the royal wedding will air in your local timezone (probably in the wee hours of the morning).
And, finally, if you would like to watch a pre-wedding interview on Friday, June 12 with the happy couple and hosted by the lovely Miss Ebba von Sydow then please click here and bookmark the link.
As the royal wedding approaches I have no doubt there will be more updates to this post so please stay tuned and have a wonderful weekend! :)
Photo courtesy of Swedish royal court