Next summer it is 50 years since King Carl XVI Gustaf paid a State Visit to the United Kingdom (hosted in Edinburgh)… He was then unmarried and was accompanied to the State Banquets by his sister and brother in law Princess Margaretha and John Ambler who already lived in UK…
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made their return state visit to Sweden in 1983, arriving with Britannia and had a similar welcoming ceremony to the one we saw yesterday for the danish King and Queen.
What i would love to see King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia make a State Visit to UK soon…. To be entirely protocollary correct maybe it is King Charles who should visit Sweden first as King Carl Gustaf is now the longest serving monarch in Europe, but as it is Sweden’s turn to visit UK i think the next visit whenever it happens will be in that direction
