Royal Guests and Relatives joined the Swedish Royal Family for a Ball at the Royal Palace of Stockholm on this day in 1961, 65 years ago, following the Civil Wedding of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern.
The Swedish Royal Family held a Ball to celebrate the Wedding of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern at the Royal Palace of Stockholm after their Civil Wedding in Sweden and ahead of their Religious Wedding at Sigmaringen Castle in Germany.
Princess Birgitta of Sweden (wearing her Pearl Circle Tiara and the Order of the Seraphim) and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (in the Order of the Seraphim)
The Ball was held by King Gustaf VI Adolf (grandfather of the bride) and Queen Louise of Sweden (grandmother of the bride, in the Sapphire Necklace) alongside Princess Sibylla (mother of the bride, wearing the Connaught Diamond Tiara and her Sapphire Necklace)
The Princess of Hohenzollern (mother of the groom, wearing Queen Maria II of Portugal’s Sapphire Tiara and the Hohenzollern Sapphire Parure).
Queen Ingrid of Denmark (aunt of the bride, wearing the Pearl Poiré Tiara)with Princess Benedikte and Princess Anne Marie (cousins of the bride),
Other guests and Relatives included Princess Margretha of Denmark (wearing her Floral Tiara), Lady Patricia Ramsay (in her Diamond Tiara), and Princess Elisabeth of Wied (wearing her Diamond Tiara) among a host of Royals and Nobles.
Princess Birgitta of Sweden, daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, married Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, son of the Prince of Hohenzollern and Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony, in a ceremony performed by Stockholm Mayor Yngve Kristensson the Hall of State at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, followed by a carriage ride through the streets of Stockholm.
As Princess Birgitta was a Lutheran and Prince Johann Georg was a Roman Catholic, Pope John XXIII originally forbade a mixed religious ceremony in Sweden. Consequently, the couple chose a secular civil union under German law—the only legally binding portion of their marriage—followed by a religious ceremony five days later in Germany.
