THE ROYAL COURT ANNUAL REPORT 2009 CONTENTS THE YEAR IN BRIEF ...................................................................4 CARL XVI GUSTAF – SWEDEN’S HEAD OF STATE .................5 REPORT FROM THE MARSHAL OF THE REALM ........................ 6 THE ROYAL COURT The Royal Court – in the service of The King ..............................................7 Financial reporting ........................................................................................ 7 Use of funds within the Court Administration .............................................. 8 Staff ...............................................................................................................9 THE COURT ADMINISTRATION Offi ce of the Marshal of the Realm ..............................................................10 Offi ce of the Marshal of the Court with Offi ce of Ceremonies ...................12 H.M. The Queen’s Household .....................................................................16 H.R.H. The Crown Princess's Household ................................................... 19 H.R.H. The Duchess of Halland’s Household ..............................................21 The Royal Mews ......................................................................................... 22 THE PALACE ADMINISTRATION The Royal Collections with the Bernadotte Library .................................... 24 The Offi ce of the Governor of the Royal Palaces ........................................ 28 - Stockholm Palace Administration .............................................................. 30 - Drottningholm Palace Administration with the Crown Lands .................. 31 - Gripsholm Castle Administration.............................................................. 33 ROYAL DJURGÅRDEN ADMINISTRATION Operations ................................................................................................... 34 ROYAL PALACE ADMINISTRATION ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 2009 Notes to the fi nancial statements ................................................................. 36 Financial statements .................................................................................... 37 Auditor’s report ........................................................................................... 41 ROYAL DJURGÅRDEN ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 2009 Notes to the fi nancial statements ................................................................. 42 Financial statements .................................................................................... 43 Auditor’s report ........................................................................................... 44 Diagram overview ....................................................................................... 45 theme: state visits ......................................................................... 46 theme: the bicentenary ............................................................. 48 theme: the eu presidency .......................................................... 49 theme: cabinet meetings ........................................................... 50 Medal presentations ................................................................................. 52 calendar – Excerpts from the Royal Family’s offi cial programme ........54 Royal glossary ..............................................................................................63 Organisation .............................................................................................. 64 THE ROYAL COURT 2009 3 THE YEAR IN BRIEF The Bicentenary and the EU Presidency were key features of the programme of activities ■ Two outgoing state visits. The King opened the Parliamentary Session, and held cabinet meetings and meetings of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. Twenty fi ve ambassadors were received during formal audiences ■ Offi cial dinners, ministerial lunches and the traditional dinner for the Nobel Laureates ■ Offi cial exchange of visits during the Bicentenary between Sweden and Finland ■ Several audiences in connection with the Swedish EU Presidency Two royal engagements announced ■ Crown Princess Victoria and Mr Daniel Westling engaged ■ Princess Madeleine and Jonas Bergström LL.M. engaged ■ Haga Palace prepared for use as a royal residence once again Extensive eff orts on behalf of children, the elderly and people with dementia ■ The Queen arranged a seminar in connection with the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child ■ 10th anniversary of the World Childhood Foundation – many events held in Sweden and abroad ■ Silviahemmet’s teaching model is also launched in Germany ■ Queen Silvia’s Prayer Book benefi ts the Church of Sweden’s charitable work Record number of visitors to the royal palaces ■ 880,680 visitors to the royal palaces, of which around 616,300 visited the Royal Palace of Stockholm ■ A focus on garden tourism at Drottningholm Palace ■ Many popular musical events held at the Royal Palace of Stockholm ■ The Open Palace event on Sweden’s National Day drew a record number of visitors Royal cultural heritage initiatives ■ Restoration of the Bernadotte Gallery and Princess Sibylla’s offi cial guest apartments completed ■ Restoration work and environmental improvements in the Hall of State and the Halls of the Orders of Chivalry ■ New digital image databank makes documenting and researching the royal cultural heritage easier ■ Continued focus on energy-related and environmental work ■ Positive experiences from electric car trial at the Royal Mews ■ Energy-saving initiatives reduce energy consumption by around 90,000 kWh ■ Pilot studies started in relation to the installation of solar cells at the Royal Palace of Stockholm 4 THE ROYAL COURT 2009 The King declares the Parliamentary Session open. King Carl XVI Gustaf – Sweden’s Head of State SWEDEN’S HEAD OF STATE. The Swedish Constitution Act rules that the “holder of Sweden’s throne is the nation’s Head of State”. Sweden is thus a constitutional monarchy. Sweden’s King, Carl XVI Gustaf, came to the throne in 1973, and is the 74th monarch. The organisation that surrounds the Head of State is called the Royal Court. Sweden is one of the oldest monarchies in the world. A castle The Swedish Constitution Act also states that The King shall has stood on the site of the Royal Palace for over a thousand chair information and change of government cabinet meetings, years. There has been a reigning monarch at the castle for and meetings of the Advisory Council on Foreign Aff airs. several centuries, right up to the present day. The King shall also open the Parliamentary Session. In all The Swedish monarchy has performed its duties in vari- other respects, it is the monarch’s duty to represent Sweden ous diff erent forms throughout history. As with our Nordic at incoming and outgoing state visits, and to receive foreign neighbours, Denmark and Norway, Sweden is now a consti- ambassadors for accreditation. tutional monarchy, which means that the monarchy’s author- If The King is prevented from carrying out his duties as ity is regulated by the constitution. Head of State, for example due to foreign visits to distant The offi cial duties of the Swedish monarchy are chiefl y or inaccessible regions, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Carl symbolic, as a “collective representative and symbol of the Philip or Princess Madeleine (in order of succession) step in country”. as temporary representatives. THE ROYAL COURT 2009 5 Report from the Marshal of the Realm of State on current issues on a number of occasions. Deci- sions on which events to take part in are made based on the need for a broad knowledge of social conditions. The Royal Court is also responsible for preserving and dis- playing the cultural heritage that is associated with the history of the monarchy. Last year, 880,680 visits were registered at the royal palaces, of which more than 616,300 were to the Royal Palace of Stockholm. Visitor activities are fi nanced via entrance fees. The increase in the allocation from the 2008 fi nancial year on- wards is due to factors such as the need for heightened security measures and covering The Crown Princess’s additional offi cial commitments. This has been taken into account when allocating the allocation within the internal budget. Risk analyses have there- Former Marshal of the Realm Ingemar Eliasson. fore been carried out for all the royal palaces, and the surveillance centre staffi ng increases have been made permanent. During the The announcement on 24 February of Crown Princess Vic- year, the restoration of the guest apartments was completed, and toria’s engagement to Mr Daniel Westling and the announce- the work to restore the Halls of the Orders of Chivalry and the ment of Princess Madeleine’s engagement to Jonas Bergström Hall of State began. In all these cases, the issue of ensuring pro- LL.M. has had a signifi cant impact on the fi nancial year. All tection for irreplaceable cultural values has been central, together the Royal Court’s offi ces and departments were involved in with the safety of staff , guests and visitors in these rooms. planning the weddings. The fact that the heir to the Swedish The proportion of the allocation increase required in order to throne is getting married is an aff air of state. The Royal Court fi nance the additional activities of The Crown Princess is being has therefore been temporarily provided with an increased used to gradually build up the service required by The Crown state allocation as part-fi nancing for the event. Princess and