Swedish Nobility to Bow Out of Link to Government. By Karl Ritter . Feb. 9, 2003 12 AM PT . ... Swedish noblemen agreed to shed their economic and political privileges in 1865, ...

The near-constant conflicts between the Swedish empire and its neighbors pushed the organization of local life in seized lands to the background, allowing Baltic German nobility in Livonia to ...

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Populist Sweden Takes Notch Off Nobility. Aristocratic Families to Lose Legal Status as 'Last Step Into the Age of Democracy' February 15, 2003. By Karl Ritter.

Sweden's House of Nobility (Riddarhuset), which keeps lists of the country's aristocracy, is concerned that it will no longer be able to track its members after losing the legal entitlement to ...

Sweden's House of Nobility (Riddarhuset) has objected to an application for a name change by a woman in Stockholm, arguing that its regulations do not allow for hereditary claims via the mother's side ...

This also meant hosting any Swedish nobility who might be in town — just few years ago, in fact, Sweden’s Princess Victoria stopped by to rededicate the hall. The hall is also open to the public: ...

Scandinavian Giant SF Studios & ’Easy Money’ Screenwriter Team on ‘The Stockholm Bloodbath’ ... the Danish king ordered the execution of many figures of the Swedish nobility.