The head of the House of Bernadotte (a.k.a. the Swedish royal family), Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus was born on April 30, 1946 at Haga Palace in Solna, Sweden. He's now the longest-reigning Swedish king ...

While 2022 was a big year for royal anniversaries — with Queen Elizabeth II of Britain marking 70 years on the throne and Queen Margrethe of Denmark celebrating 50 years of her reign — it's King Carl ...

King Gustaf V of Sweden today appointed the famous Berlin Jewish conductor, Leo Blech, as Master of the King’s Music. Mr. Blech is at present guest conductor at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for ...