#astrid of sweden

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

Has anyone else looked at a picture of Astrid of Sweden and thought it was Tatiana? 😅

[romanovsonelastdance]

OTMAA Contemporaries: Belgian Royal Family

From left: Princess Marie-Jose, Crown Prince Leopold, Crown Princess Astrid (in back), Queen Elisabeth, King Albert I, and Prince Charles. The Belgians were distantly related to Alix and OTMAA via that Saxe-Coburg line, as King Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, was the beloved uncle of Queen Victoria. Prince Leopold (future King Leopold III), was born in 1901, Prince Charles in 1903, and Princess Marie-Jose in 1906. Leopold's wife, Astrid of Sweden, was more closely related to OTMAA through the Danish family: her mother Ingeborg was a Danish princess and a first cousin of Nicholas II. There are photos of OTMAA with Astrid and her sisters in their childhoods.

[colourbymarie]

Princess Astrid of Sweden, 1922

[historicconfessions]

[leonisandmurex]

"YOUR GRANDMOTHERS PRAYERS ARE STILL PROTECTING YOU"

Royal Autumn 2024 challenge - favourite photos of royals with + their ancestors

[thequeerlibrarian]

Today I visited the Astrid Lindgrens Värld, a theme park dedicated to Astrid Lindgrens children's books. For all the people who grew up with her stories as well, have some pictures:

Pippi Långstrumps Villa Villekulla & the village:

Emil i Lönneberga:

Ronja Rövardotter:

Bullerbyn:

Tbh I cried a bit here, it's so pretty and there were children's theatres (I even understood some Swedish)

[septembergold]

[natureandphotography1]

📷 by natureandphotography1 (Flickr, Autumn Blog, Nerdy Blog)

Please do not remove credit :)

[beckinferno]

missing her a little extra today :(

sometimes i wonder how one's brain can be so sad about something and miss someone you've never met. someone who passed away before you were born. astrid will always mean so much to me, as an author and person. <3

pictures are my own personal ones from traveling

[noconcessions]

[joyfulseasons]

Ilon Wikland

[postcard-from-the-past]

Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubert Marie Michel, King Leopold III of Belgium and Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, Queen consort of the Belgians

Belgian vintage postcard

[thatcreepyaesthetic]

Allrakäraste syster 1988

“Hur nära de än kommer visa inte att du när rädd, allra käraste syster / However close they get dont show that you’re scared, most beloved sister”

[mansnooziesmoosmutzel]

"Cycling and swimming, watering strawberry beds, running errands for father's grocery shop, sitting by the river fishing, playing ball in Eva-Lotte's garden - not enough to fill the days. The summer holidays were so long. Yes, summer holidays were fortunately long. And they were the best invention ever, Kalle thought. It was strange to think that adults had come up with something like that. They really did let you run around in the sunshine for ten weeks without worrying about the Thirty Years' War or anything like that. Instead, you could spent your time with Wars of the Roses, and that was much nicer."

(from: Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously (1951), by Astrid Lindgren)

[bumblebee-cottage]

[thequeerlibrarian]

📍Gibberyd, Sweden: The original Katthult of Emil i Lönneberg (I went there by bike, I don't recommend that, it was a horrible bike ride, I cried)