Expressen's royal expert Karin Lennmor, and Monica Bonde, the daughter of count Carl Johan Bernadotte, have visited the Royal Cemetery at Karlsborg in Haga. They visited the cemetery on 31st October, Count Carl Johan's birthday.
The royal family's unknown cemetery at Haga
Here, on cape of Karlsborg at Haga Park, is the royal family's unknown cemetery.
In the season premiere of Expressen TV's "Kungafamiljen", the viewers are taken to one of the family's holiest places, which is important for Crown Princess Victoria.
The royal cemetery on cape of Karlsborg at Haga Park.
- It is one of Stockholm's most unknown places. I don't think there are many who know that it exists at all, says Karin Lennmor to Program host Ylva Johansson.
Only the royal family has the key to the gates - and Monica Bonde has a key.
In the cemetery are buried 14 royals, including her father, Count Carl Johan Bernadotte.
- I feel reverence and gratitude and love, of course. Dad meant a lot to me and my brother and our children, says Monica Bonde.
The cemetery was inaugurated in 1922 at the request of Crown Princess Margareta, King Carl Gustaf's grandmother, who had died two years earlier at the age of 38.
At the video Monica says that she visits the cemetery always on her father's birthday and death day, lays flowers to his grave. Lennmor says that your father's wife Gunnila is the last person buried here. Yes, two years ago, says Monica. Lennmor tells to program host Ylva Johansson, that she went in to the cemetery with Monica Bonde. That there is a private cemetery for the royal family is quite exciting. The graves are large, and there was six grave lanterns at every grave, ready for the All Saints' Day. Karin Lennmor says that crown princess Victoria lives very close to the cemetery and she has heard that Victoria walks to the cemetery with her children. It's part of the heritage she wants to take further, to show respect to her ancestors and tell about the family members to her children. She goes to the cemetery quite often.
Kungafamiljens okända begravningsplats i Haga