Posted by Robert
on 18/8/2009, 21:10:46, in reply to "Re: Question on this:"
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: On the website of the Svenska Heraldiska
: Föreningen I stumbled over this sentence:
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: "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. "
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: 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?
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: 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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There was no such exception in the rules back in 1976, when Silvia Sommerlath recieved the Order of the Seraphim. Back then, no Swedish citizens could recieve it, and Silvia became a Swedish citizen when she became Queen. So how did they solve it? The King gave the Order to Ms Silvia Sommerlath the day before the wedding...
RW
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