After a two-year corona hiatus, royalty, prize winners and ministers gather tonight at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall. There will be a huge line-up with three years’ prize winners on site.
When the afternoon award ceremony in Stockholm’s concert hall is over, it’s time for the banquet. At 7pm this evening, the main table’s guests will march in to a solemn fanfare with organ and trumpet. After that, according to a meticulous schedule, the 1,300 guests will be served drinks and food and enjoy entertainment and speeches.
This year, there are a record number of prize winners in the Blue Hall, 22. The Nobel Foundation has invited those who have been awarded in the past two years but missed the award ceremony and banquet due to the pandemic.
The King, Queen, Crown Princess, Prince Daniel, Prince Carl Philip, Princess Sofia will be there. Princess Madeleine and her husband Chris O’Neill, however, have announced that they will not be coming this year.
Crown Princess Victoria will sit between medicine laureate Svante Pääbo and physics laureate Alain Aspect, the latter having the Queen at the table. The king has chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi as his maid of honor. Prince Carl Philip has Linda Vigilant, Svante Pääbo’s wife as his maid of honor and Prince Daniel has Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire next to him, partners to the Danish chemistry prize winner Morten Meldal.
TV4 Nyheternas reporter Calle Hedlund is on site and taking the temp.