Today in Stockholm, the Swedish royal family will say farewell to the King\u2019s sister, Princess D\u00e9sir\u00e9e, during a private funeral at the Royal Palace. In her honor, we\u2019re looking today at her final public tiara appearance, which featured a special jewel that had been part of her collection for more than half a century.<\/p>\n Ten years ago this April, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden celebrated his 70th birthday with a series of events in Stockholm. On April 30, family and friends from Sweden and abroad gathered at the Royal Palace for a birthday banquet, including all four of his sisters. Princess D\u00e9sir\u00e9e, the third of the four princesses, arrived for the banquet with her husband, Baron Niclas Silfverschi\u00f6ld, and her elder sister, Princess Birgitta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Both Birgitta and D\u00e9sir\u00e9e wore ensembles for the banquet in shades of white and silver, accessorized with diamond jewelry. Birgitta\u2019s dress featured sheer sleeves, while D\u00e9sir\u00e9e wore a gown with draping and sparkling embellishments on the bodice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Both of the princesses wore diamond tiaras linked to generations of Swedish royal women from the past. Birgitta borrowed the Baden Fringe Tiara<\/a>, a royal heirloom that belonged to her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria of Sweden, for the occasion. D\u00e9sir\u00e9e opted for a tiara that belonged to her personally: a classic diamond scroll tiara<\/a> given to her by her grandparents, King Gustaf VI Adolf and Queen Louise of Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The tiara had been part of Louise\u2019s collection since her time as Crown Princess of Sweden. She married the widowed Crown Prince Gustaf in 1923<\/a>, three years after the death of his wife (and D\u00e9sir\u00e9e\u2019s grandmother), Princess Margaret of Connaught. Among the presents offered to the new Crown Princess Louise was \u201ca delicate diamond bandeau,\u201d a gift from her brother and sister-in-law, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina. I\u2019m convinced that this diamond scroll tiara is the Mountbatten bandeau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In the 1950s, when Gustaf\u2019s four granddaughters\u2014Princesses Margaretha, Birgitta, D\u00e9sir\u00e9e, and Christina, collectively known as the \u201cHaga Princesses\u201d\u2014began appearing at royal events, Louise often offered the smaller tiaras given to her at the beginning of her marriage to the girls for galas and banquets. Above, D\u00e9sir\u00e9e wears the scroll tiara during the Nobel Prize banquet in December 1963. When she married Baron Niclas Silfverschi\u00f6ld a few months later, Gustaf and Louise gave her the tiara as a wedding present<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n D\u00e9sir\u00e9e wore the tiara often at gala events throughout the years. For her brother\u2019s 70th birthday banquet, she paired it with modern earrings from her own collection<\/a>, a slender diamond rivi\u00e8re, and a diamond cuff bracelet and matching cocktail ring. (Behind her, a cousin, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, wears another Swedish royal heirloom, Queen Sofia\u2019s Star and Pearl Tiara<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This was one of the last gala occasions attended by all four of the Haga Princesses. Princess Birgitta and Princess D\u00e9sir\u00e9e arrived for the banquet behind their eldest and youngest sisters, Princess Margaretha (wearing the Swedish Aquamarine Kokoshnik<\/a> that belonged to Margaret of Connaught) and Princess Christina (wearing the aquamarine bandeau<\/a> that belonged to Queen Louise and is now in the collection of Princess Madeleine), and Christina\u2019s husband, Tord Magnuson. Behind them is another cousin, Prince Andreas of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, Margaretha and Christina are the only two sisters still living, following Birgitta\u2019s death in December 2024 and D\u00e9sir\u00e9e\u2019s passing in January 2026. Margaretha, now 91, lives in Oxfordshire, while 82-year-old Christina still lives in Sweden and makes occasional appearances with the rest of the royal family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thecourtjeweller.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Princess D\u00e9sir\u00e9e and her husband, Baron Niclas Silfverschi\u00f6ld, attend a banquet celebrating the King of Sweden\u2019s 70th birthday at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on April 30, 2016 (Christine Olsson\/TT News Agency\/Alamy) Today in Stockholm, the Swedish royal family will say farewell to the King\u2019s sister, Princess D\u00e9sir\u00e9e, during a private funeral at the Royal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Celebrating-Princess-Desirees-Heirloom-Swedish-Royal-Tiara.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288805,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288801\/revisions\/2288805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Princess](\"https:\/\/www.thecourtjeweller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-0218-01-desiree02.jpg\")
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