The touching twist behind Princess Estelle’s birthday portrait


She’s officially a teenager!

Princess Estelle has turned 13, celebrating privately with her family, though the future queen stars in a new portrait with a special twist.

Kate Gabor, the photographer behind the future queen’s latest birthday snap, is also the photographer who shot the first pictures of the newborn princess in 2012.

When the newborn first child of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, was only three weeks old, her first official portraits were released. Gabor told reporters at the time, “I can’t really say anything about it but I was given this very exciting assignment and I am very proud and very happy.”

Since then, Gabor has photographed Princess Estelle on many occasions, for birthdays and National Day commemorations, and has also photographed her cousins—she snapped the portraits at Prince Alexander’s christening in 2016, as well.

Photo: Kate Gabor/The Royal Court of Sweden

Princess Estelle’s birthday portrait was taken in Prince Bertil’s apartment in the Royal Palace. Named after King Carl XVI Gustaf’s late uncle and a much-loved member of the Swedish Royal Famliy, today, the apartments are used for meetings and other formal functions.

The teenage royal is second in line to the Swedish throne following her mother. Though Sweden adopted absolute primogeniture in 1980—and backdated it to 1979 so that Crown Princess Victoria would become first-in-line in place of her younger brother, Prince Carl Philip—Princess Estelle is the first Swedish princess who could not be displaced by the birth of a younger brother.

Princess Estelle carries out no official duties aside from attending larger family functions for Sweden’s national day, birthdays, weddings and christenings, and studies at the Campus Manilla School in Royal Djurgården.



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