In 1988 Dad stood here and had a photo taken; now I'm having my photo taken. This is in a little alleyway on Gamla Stan the Royal Family Island in Old Town Stockholm/ The little alleyway gets much narrower the higher you go.
And here I am, in the Royal Palace of the Swedish Royal Family, with the solid silver coronation throne in the background. The throne was made in 1625 ( I think) and is used for coronations still. I think it's pretty cool that in Sweden you can walk through the Royal palce - and see rooms that are still used by the Royal amily on State occassions today.
Like this room, that is based on the French palace of Versailles. There are big mirrors that reflect light from the windoows into the room. The ceiling is covered in paintings.
And we sawa full changing of the Guard at the Palace from a regular army troop to the Royal Life Guards ( in the dark bluue) up until the 1960's only the Royal Life Guards guarded the palace - since then it has been shared - so we were their on a special day to see a full changing of the guard to the original Royal Life Guards. The band you see in the background is the Navy Cadet band - 55 gifted and talented junior musicians - everyone cheered when they played "Dancing Queen" by Abba.
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