The Emperor of Japan wasn’t the only royal celebrating a birthday this weekend. In Sweden, the royal court marked Princess Estelle’s birthday with a set of lovely new royal portraits.
Princess Estelle, who is second in line to the throne after her mother, Crown Princess Victoria, sat for a new set of official portraits in the apartment at the Royal Palace in Stockholm that once belonged to the King’s late uncle, Prince Bertil. The pictures were released this week to celebrate Estelle’s 13th birthday.
With a neutral sweater and matching knit skirt, Estelle wore some lovely, age-appropriate pieces of jewelry for the portraits, including an engraved gold locket pendant on a golden chain.
She continued the heart theme through to her earrings, which are teeny open heart designs that appear to feature pavé-set gemstones, perhaps small diamonds.
And on her right wrist, the princess wore a single row of pearls set as a bracelet. Every future female monarch should certainly become well-acquainted with pearls early in her life! She’ll be wearing lots of them.
The pictures were taken by the court photographer Kate Gabor, who also photographed Estelle during a very important moment more than a decade ago.
Gabor took the first official pictures of the baby princess in 2012. Those images showed little Estelle, then just a few weeks old, in the arms of her mother, Crown Princess Victoria, and father, Prince Daniel. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 13 years since these images were published!
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