Posted by Martin Mattsson
on 18/8/2009, 19:04:13, in reply to "Question on this:"
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: On the website of the Svenska Heraldiska
: Föreningen I stumbled over this sentence:
:
: "The last person to receive a charter
: of nobility was the explorer Sven Hedin who
: received his in 1902, more than a hundred
: years ago. And this will most likely be the
: last Swede ever. In 1974 the new
: constitution proclaimed that no person can
: be granted nobility nor receive the orders
: of the state. "
:
: My question goes about the marked part of
: the sentence. How do I have to understand
: it? Haven't Silvia Sommerlath and Lilian
: Craig been given Orders of State?
:
Yes, an exception has been made for members of the Royal House, otherwise the King's three children would not have been allowed to receive any orders either.
Just imagine the future with a Queen Victoria to be the head of the Order of the Seraphine, and not being a member of it herself...
All this is of course a result of the long socialist government in the Republican Kingdom of Sweden...
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