Ten Terrific Tiara Moments from a Swedish Royal Wedding, Ten Years Ago

Royals from around the world celebrated in Stockholm when Prince Carl Philip married Sofia Hellqvist in June 2015, wearing spectacular and sentimental tiaras

Next week, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia will celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. Over the last decade, the couple have been reliable royal representatives in Sweden, and their family has grown to include three sons and a daughter. In honor of their anniversary, I’m sharing ten particularly special tiara moments from their royal wedding in the spring of 2015.

Sofia Hellqvist is pictured on the day of her wedding to Prince Carl Philip, son of the King and Queen of Sweden, in Stockholm on June 13, 2015 (DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy)

An Emerald Tiara Debut for the Princess Bride

When Sofia Hellqvist walked down the aisle of the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm on her wedding day, she wore a classic white wedding gown and veil by the designer Ida Sjöstedt and a bejeweled surprise: a brand-new tiara made of stylized diamond palmette leaves topped with pear-shaped emeralds.

The tiara was a gift to Sofia from her new in-laws, the King and Queen of Sweden. To make the tiara, they selected a necklace from Queen Silvia’s personal collection, given to her by a Thai prince, to transform into a new jewel for their daughter-in-law. The necklace was sent back to a jeweler in Thailand, Beauty Gems, and reworked into a tiara.

Since then, the tiara has been transformed again, allowing it to be worn as a more open, halo-style tiara. Sofia has also worn it with a whole series of gemstone toppers, including pearls, turquoises, blue topazes, and citrines.

Queen Silvia of Sweden attends the wedding of her son, Prince Carl Philip, and Sofia Hellqvist in Stockholm on June 13, 2015 (DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy)

Spectacular Sapphires to Celebrate Royal Mothers and Sons

Queen Silvia of Sweden arrived for her son’s wedding wearing one of the grandest tiaras in the vast Swedish royal jewelry collection: the tiara from the Leuchtenberg Sapphire Parure. For the wedding, she paired the tiara with the earrings and brooch from the suite and a diamond necklace and pendant.

The choice of the tiara for a royal mother to wear at the wedding of her son was a neat tribute to the jewel’s origins. The parure was originally given to Princess Augusta of Bavaria by her mother-in-law, Empress Josephine of France, to celebrate the birth of Augusta’s first son, Prince Auguste of Leuchtenberg, in 1810. More than two hundred years later, it was a natural choice for another royal mother to wear to celebrate her son’s marriage.