716 HRH Princess Désirée, Princess of Sweden

HRH Princess Désirée, Princess of Sweden

✶ 2 June 1938 at Haga Palace

Member and Commander of the Royal Orders

22 March 1952

motto

Missing

shield

Painted 1990 by Bengt Olof Kälde.

other awards

King Gustaf V’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal 1948
Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword 1952
Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star 1952
King Gustav VI Adolf’s Commemorative Medal 1967
King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal I 1996
Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel’s Wedding Commemorative Medal 2010
King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal II 2013
King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal III 2016

Biography

Third daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten.
Married Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld 1964. As a result of her non-royal marriage, she lost her style of Royal Highness and her position as a princess of Sweden, but was given the courtesy title Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld.

Placement

On display in the Hall of the Order of the Seraphim at the Royal Palace of Stockholm