This year is the 200th anniversary of the election of Jean Bernadotte, Marshal in the army of Napoleon I, as Crown Prince of Sweden, under the name of Karl Johan.
The exhibition 'The Royal House of Bernadotte' at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde features artworks and other objects connected to the Bernadotte dynasty. The exhibition includes a number of paintings by Prince Eugen (the great grandson of Karl Johan) and by Princess Eugénie (Karl Johan's grand child and Prince Eugen's aunt) and portraits and caricatures, busts, letters, medals and photographs.