#andiatas

[world-of-wales]

❥ SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY : Halla Tómasdóttir, The President of Iceland while addressing the press alongside King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was speaking about friendship between the two countries, only to get a practical example of it as she lost her glasses while giving her speech and was helped in locating her pair by a courtier (requested by - @andiatas) | 6 MAY 2025

[cursed-commons-chats]

Sorry for the bad quality but this made me chuckle so I had to screenshot it

[imfoive]

Jumping in here in hopes that either you or one of your followers can find the source for this. What's this I'm hearing about one of the directors actually confirming they used Chan as inspo for Saja Boys in that Netflix K-pop film? 👀

(I haven't watched it yet & I know people speculated already when the trailer dropped that the group was inspired by SKZ & Ateez... But I've been seeing people on Instagram mention that Chan was confirmed, however no receipts & I'm like, I need the source! Where are Stay getting this from? 🧐 I mean fair enough, I would also create my own Chan if I were one of the directors

Thanks for indulging my mini crash out here, I should probably head to sleep 😂

I think I saw something in regards to that but honestly I didn’t even know what Saja Boys was until last night 😭 (no fr why is the director me lmao)

So if anyone knows anything I would also like to know!!

[onheirpodcast]

So I'm currently listening to Ep. 64, where you guys play dictators & create the perfect monarchy. First of, there should be a drinking game for that episode: "Take a shot every time someone says 'working royal'!"

But my question is, why doesn't the UK just do like the rest & separate the terms "The Royal Family" & "The Royal House"? I feel like that would make things so much easier for everyone 😂 Maybe this is me talking from a privileged Swedish POV but it's very clear that when someone talks about Kungahuset they're talking about the monarchy, the actual institution, the people who are working for the monarchy. Similarly, if someone is talking about Kungafamiljen, it's very clear that they're talking about all the family members.

I mean, we still have the confusing factor of Princess Birgitta being technically part of Kungahuset, but the only thing she does is suntan in Mallorca & travel around the world to play golf 😂 However, we know she doesn't receive anything from the apanage, so no one really cares about it.

Anyway, enough of my rambling. I'm just curious if there is a reason why the British royals don't have that divide or if it's just a situation of "oh cheese we've never had to think about this"?

Hello :) Lovely to hear from you! Sorry for the VERY late reply!

Just a bit of background for those who don't know. Some royal families - not all - have a formal, public divide between the Royal House (generally those in the main line who work as royals) and the Royal Family (those who are part of the monarch's family but do not work as royals).

It's impossible to know for sure but as with many things, it's likely cultural. We like flexibility, and when you reign over a population of 150 million people you need flexibility. It's much easier to draw a divide in a country of less than 6 million people like Norway! There's also nothing Brits hate more than having to put effort into something. So I think there would have to be a really clear benefit for us to consider formally and publicly drawing that line. If you look at Sweden, it didn't reduce how much it costs you. It didn't change who was a working royal. We already knew the other grandkids likely wouldn't be working royals so all Carl Gustaf's decision did was confirm that. And in our language, Royal House and Royal Family would be viewed as the same thing by the general public. I feel like in Swedish the words kind of naturally have different connotations (forgive me if I'm wrong) but here I don't think it would help the public's understanding of who gets money and who doesn't or who's a working royal and who isn't. So in terms of a sheer cost benefit analysis, it wouldn't be worth the effort. I can definitely see them doing adjacent things. So for example I wouldn't be surprised if William only gives Prince/ss titles to George's children or continues with his dad's decision with the Duke of Edinburgh title and only gives out peerages for life e.g. making Louis a Duke but it wouldn't pass on to his children. Both of those would be a departure but would actually help the public because non-royal watchers tend to (wrongly) think titles = taxpayer funded. In practice it's not too dissimilar from a Royal House vs Royal Family divide, I just don't think they'd want to back themselves into a corner by creating a formal, public structure unless completely necessary.

[leonorsreign]

Was going to send a message but I'll do it this way since people might find it interesting - yes, you're correct!

Carl Gustaf & Silvia = Kungaparet (literally The Kingly Couple, but is mainly translated to The Royal Couple) Their children = Kungabarnen (literally The Kingly Children, but just like above, it's mostly translated to The Royal Children)

Victoria & Daniel = Kronprinsessparet (The Crown Princess Couple) Them plus their kids = Kronprinsessfamiljen (The Crown Princess Family)

Carl Philip & Sofia = Prinsparet (The Prince Couple) Them plus their kids = Prinsfamiljen (The Prince Family)

Madeleine & Chris = Prinsessparet (The Princess Couple) Them plus their children = Prinsessfamiljen (The Princess Family)

It's similar in Norway, with Harald & Sonja being known as Kongeparet, Haakon & Mette-Marit are known as Kronprinsparet & the two of them together with Ingrid Alexandra & Sverre Magnus are known as Kronprinsfamilien.

thanks, saga!

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

*clutching my pearls* What do you mean there are no photos of Carl Gustaf among your favourite Olympics photos? Him watching sports almost rivals Catherine's iconic facial expressions

...because I forgot he existed until he turned up at the Olympics today... because he's the most forgettable "old royal" to me #sorrycg

[onheirpodcast]

@andiatas I think you sent us a message but it’s gone from my inbox. Don’t know if it’s a tumblr glitch or if I accidentally deleted it when I was going through our messages (I do that a lot because I check tumblr when I first wake up!).

I vaguely remember that it was about the translation of Marius’s statement and how he didn’t say “my love”, that was a clunky translation from the original Norwegian and wouldn’t be viewed as correct by actual Norwegians. That’s very helpful, thank you! I’d say it doesn’t negate the four-ish (can’t remember exactly how many) other reasons we felt it was a manipulative statement between us but it is important to correct the record as I did list it at the end of my reasons so thanks for sharing :)

Let me know if I forgot anything else in the message.

[onheirpodcast]

Thought you two may enjoy the brilliant way Spotify summarized the latest episode 🤭 don't know why but the "Reactions" is taking me out 😂

The Meeting Between Private Citizens is hilarious to me!