This future queen just showed she’s all for breaking royal rules

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden showed there’s no such thing
as hard and fast royal protocol as she made a surprising decision
for her latest gala appearance.

Victoria, 48, wore one of her country’s highest honours in a
very unusual way and all in the name of style.

The heir to the throne had chosen to fully embrace the trend for
90s vintage at his year’s prestigious Nobel Prize ceremony in
Stockholm.

The Crown Princess appeared in a monochrome dress that belongs
to her mum, Queen Silvia, and her pick meant that her special
honour had to go fully versatile.

As the dress is completely strapless, Victoria had to wear her
sash for the Order of the Seraphim across her bare shoulders and
underneath the bodice.

The pale blue sash disappeared into the dress – usually it is
worn over a gown and finishes at the waist.

However, this on trend 1990s creation meant that the woman who
will one day be in charge of the Order of the Seraphim had to start
shaking up its rules before she’s even queen.

The dress was first seen in 1994 and was designed by Jacques
Zehnder.

Victoria wore it with a diamond fringe tiara that had first
belonged to Queen Sofia of Sweden.

Queen Silvia also made her own fashion statement at the banquet
which took place at Stockholm’s Radhus. The Swedish queen chose a
bright yellow dress which she also wore to the Golden Jubilee
celebrations of her husband, King Carl XVI Gustaf, in September
2023.

For the banquet, held on a chilly Stockholm evening, she added a
bright green scarf around her shoulders. Danish paper,
Billed-Bladet, speculated that Queen Silvia might be giving a nod
to the colours of the flag of Brazil – her mother, Alice, was
Brazilian.

The Queen of Sweden wore one of her favourite tiaras, an all
diamond diadem that finishes in ”prongs”.

Princess Madeleine, Victoria’s younger sister, went full
princess mode for this year’s Nobel gala, wearing an ice blue gown
with a sequinned cape top. It matched her favourite tiara, an
aquamarine kokoshnik, to perfection. She was accompanied by her
husband, Christopher O’Neill.

Prince Carl Philip, only son of King Carl Gustaf and Queen
Silvia, and one time heir to the throne was also present. However,
his wife, Princess Sofia, missed the event.

Sofia, who turned 41 just a few days ago, was said to be staying
at home to look after the couple’s fourth child, Princess Ines, who
is now ten months old.

However, in the hours before the banquet, it was reported that
Sofia had once had links with Jeffrey Epstein. The Swedish royal
palace then confirmed that she had met him several times while she
was working as a glamour model before her relationship with Prince
Carl Philip began.

The news came to light after emails were leaked showing that
Sofia had a connection to the convicted sex offender via a mutual
contact, Barbro Ehnbom, who introduced her to Epstein in New York
in 2005, three years before he was convicted.

The correspondence from Barbro Ehnbom described Sofia, then aged
21, as an ”aspiring actress’;. It also says that Ehnbom had
mentioned Sofia to Epstein before. He then offered to send Sofia a
ticket to travel to his now notorious private island in the
Caribbean but she refused it.

In its statement, the Swedish royal court said that Sofia had
met ”the person in question” on ”a few occasions” in 2005. It also
added that she ”has not had any contact with the person in question
for 20 years”. Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in
2019.

Princess Sofia’s links to Epstein were revealed just weeks after
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lost his royal titles over his own
connections to him. King Charles removed his brother’s HRH and
Prince and had his titles of Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and
Baron Killyleagh struck from the Roll of Peerage after further
controversy.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s connections with Epstein spanned
many years. The former prince also faced accusations from Virginia
Giuffre that she was forced to have sex with him when she was just
17 years old. He has always denied those allegations although he
settled a legal case with Ms Guiffre out of court.

The Swedish Royal Family turned out in force for the Nobel Prize
ceremony and following banquet.