No escaping the wrinkles in this trip down memory lane - a selection of the hundreds of images of King Carl XVI Gustaf in a special jubilee exhibition that opened on September 13th 2013
At least when you're a king or queen you do have the luxury of a couple or three oil paintings of you in your youth which takes the edge off things. After all, if you look a bit dodgy in a painting you just blame the artist and not the choice of clothes/ lack of moisturizer/ amazingly large spot that came from nowehere when you thought you were too old for all that. Etc. And there are plenty of portraits of the king in this exhibition, which runs to February 2014.
Queen Silvia gets a bit more space on her walls for landscapes and kittens as the portraits of a king as a young man head off to the jubilee exhibition.
The exhibition opened with a special jubilee fanfare and praise for the king as a unifying figure for Sweden. And judging by the photos of him with his family afterwards, they picked the best snaps. Everyone looked rather pleased after the viewing.
The jolliest bus queue in Stockholm on Friday - the Swedish royals after their tour of the jubilee exhibition
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