Princess Christina Tiara Theft May 18, 2012: Nothing Back, One Suspect

Summary: The Princess Christina tiara theft May 18, 2012, scored a suspect who served no sentence and sequestered a bracelet, cufflinks, a tiara and two rings.

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, wears her diamond and pearl tiara, which was stolen from her apartment 17 months later, at the annual Nobel Prize Banquet, Dec. 10, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden; Henrik Montgomery/SCANPIX/AFP/Getty Images: Ella Kay @courtjeweller, via Twitter Aug. 14, 2017

The Princess Christina tiara theft May 18, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden, appears solved with the apprehension of the lone suspect and unsolved with the absence of the diamond and pearl royal diadem.

The Princess Christina tiara theft belongs on lists of insider burglaries because of the bejeweled diadem's year-round bedding in a back-room safe with key-locking, key-unlocking access. The criminal carryout of the Princess Christina diamond and pearl tiara came as the second comparable crime committed against royal jewels at Slottsbacken 2, Stockholm, Sweden. It demanded the diversion of private party attendees to a guided tour of the Royal Palace across the street from Princess Christina's and her husband's domicile.

The excursion exposed the second extraction, after the first episode in April 2012, by an ever-present, non-family member who expected blame to extend to the housekeeper.

Royal etiquette forbids fitting the title Her Royal Highness in front of Princess Christina's forename because of her marriage June 15, 1974, to commoner Tord Magnuson.

Princess Christina got to guard a gold-braided bracelet from Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (July 23, 1892-Aug. 27, 1975) and four royally bejeweled gifts from relatives. The couple's safe held among its historic heirlooms an emperor's bracelet, a king's pair of gold cufflinks, a princess's aquamarine ring and another princess's diamond ring. Online news sources indicated, without including the imperial bracelet, an estimated value of 855000 SEK (Swedish krona ["crowns"], $120,675) for all of the bejeweled royal quartet.

The total estimates joined individual estimates of the aquamarine ring, gold cufflinks, diamond ring and tiara at 25000 SEK, 30000 SEK, 450000 SEK and 350000 SEK.

Nobody knows why the suspect allegedly kept the Princess Christina tiara apart from the aquamarine ring, bracelet, gold cufflinks and diamond ring for two drug dealers.

The suspect allegedly left the Magnuson lodgings to party in Stureplan and lopped Princess Christina's tiara into the waters under the Riksbron ("State bridge") behind Parliament. He mentioned marijuana dealers as motivated into amassing precious metals to melt down and precious stones to make over and himself as moved by drug-purchasing money. He allegedly netted 9000 SEK from the drug-dealing duo for a bracelet of unknown value and for gold cufflinks and two rings valued at 505000 SEK.

Online sources observed that divers in Norrström River waters under the Riksbron obtained false teeth, one eel, wallets and nothing from the Princess Christina tiara theft.

The sole suspect proved to be a Somali refugee in Sweden since 2010 and 19 years old at the time of the May and June purloinings.

The Somali refugee queued up among acquaintances allowed to circulate throughout the Magnuson residence with the couple's presence and, in April and May 2012, without them. The relationship resulted from the couple's reaching out to Somali refugees in Aslingås and receiving the then 17-year-old as "child of the house" under Magnuson's mentorship. The 19-year-old stood trial, supported by lawyer Tomas Rothpfeffer, behind closed doors June 18, 2012, wen Stockholm District Court sentenced him to probation for grand larceny.

Who took the Princess Christina tiara from the Norrström River and turned a bracelet, cufflinks and rings into melted metals and recut gems without track records?

The suspect in the May 2012 theft of Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson's diamond and pearl tiara claimed to have tossed the tiara from the Riksbron foot bridge into the Norrström River, but divers only found false teeth, an eel and wallets; Riksbron at Riksdaghuset (Parliament House) near the Stockholm Palace, Gamla stan, central Stockholm, Sweden; Saturday, July 26, 2008, 16:24: LightPhoenix, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, wears her diamond and pearl tiara, which was stolen from her apartment 17 months later, at the annual Nobel Prize Banquet, Dec. 10, 2010; photo by Henrik Montgomery/SCANPIX/AFP/Getty Images: Ella Kay @courtjeweller, via Twitter Aug. 14, 2017, @ https://twitter.com/courtjeweller/status/897276733665181696

The suspect in the May 2012 theft of Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson's diamond and pearl tiara claimed to have tossed the tiara from the Riksbron foot bridge into the Norrström River, but divers only found false teeth, an eel and wallets; Riksbron at Riksdaghuset (Parliament House) near the Stockholm Palace, Gamla stan, central Stockholm, Sweden; Saturday, July 26, 2008, 16:24: LightPhoenix, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Near_Royal_Palace_Stockholm_Sverige.jpg

For further information:

Isaksen, Trond Norén. 15 June 2012. "Princess Christina's Tiara Stolen and Thrown into the Sea." Trond Norén Isaksen on History, Royalty, Politics, Architecture, Art and Literature.
Available @ http://trondni.blogspot.com/2012/06/princess-christinas-tiara-stolen-and.html

Lindh, Sara; and Hellberg, Magnus. 18 June 2012. "Tord Magnuson Efter Domen: 'Sorgligt.'" Expressen > Nyheter.
Available @ https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tord-magnuson-efter-domen-sorgligt/

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 April 2018. "Grand Duchess Hilda Diamond Tiara Theft April 29, 2017, in Baden, Germany." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/04/grand-duchess-hilda-diamond-tiara-theft.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 May 2018. "Princess Christina Tiara Theft May 18, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ http://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2018/02/princess-christinas-diamond-and-pearl.html

Princess Christina Tiara Theft May 18, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden

Summary: The Princess Christina tiara theft May 18, 2012, was the last of five jewels burglarized from her apartment opposite Sweden's Royal Palace in Stockholm.

Five months before the theft of her diamond and pearl tiara, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, wears the tiara Dec. 10, 2011, at the annual Nobel Prize Banquet, Stockholm, Sweden; photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images: Ella Kay @courtjeweller, via Twitter Feb. 4, 2018

The whereabouts of the Princess Christina tiara still are not accounted for after interviews and investigations about the absconding of the diamond and pearl royal diadem May 18, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Princess Christina tiara became the last of five jewels burglarized from the royal's apartment at Slottsbacken 2 across from the Royal Palace at Slottsbacken 1. Whoever carried off the Princess Christina diamond and pearl tiara committed the same crime against one imperial gift and three royal jewels clustered behind closed doors. All five crimes demanded access to a key to a safe in the more private domains within Princess Christina's elegantly and expensively decorated and furnished apartment.

Online news sources from the time of the fifth crime's exposure estimated the total value of all five extractions at 855,000 SEK (Swedish krona ["crowns"], $120,675).

The first four filchings featured the less flamboyant forms of an imperial gift and royal jewels in one bracelet, one pair of cufflinks and two rings.

Haile Selassie I (July 23, 1892-Aug. 27, 1975), Emperor of Ethiopia, gifted Princess Christina with the bracelet, for which no sources furnished the value, in 1956. Princess Christina's key-locked safe held paired gold cufflinks, that had an estimated value of 30000 SEK, from King Gustaf VI Adolf (Nov. 11, 1882-Sep. 15, 1973). It included a diamond ring that online sources indicated as valued at 450000 SEK, from Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Jan. 18, 1908-Nov. 28, 1972).

Sources judged an aquamarine ring from Princess Christina's great-grandmother Helena (Feb. 17, 1861-Sep. 1, 1922), Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont and Duchess of Albany, valued at 25000 SEK.

The Princess Christina tiara, from Ribbhagen court jewelers in Stockholm, Sweden, knew the second-greatest estimated individual value, after the Princess Sibylla diamond ring, at 350000 SEK.

An online article in The Court Jeweller Feb. 3, 2018, lists the tiara's 20th-century line of succession from one queen, through a commoner, to Princess Christina. Ebba Munck's (Oct. 24, 1858-Oct. 16, 1946) marriage maddened her husband Oscar's (Nov. 15, 1859-Oct. 4, 1953) father, King Oscar II (Jan. 21, 1829-Dec. 8, 1907). The lady-in-waiting at the Swedish court netted support from Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway (July 9, 1836-Dec. 30, 1913), the king's wife and prince's mother.

The wedding occurred March 15, 1888, with Queen Sophia, not her husband, among attendees and obtained Sophia's tiara for one of the couple's subsequent five children.

Queen Sophia's tiara passed to her second-eldest son's third daughter, Elsa (Aug. 3, 1893-July 17, 1996), wife of commoner Hugo Cedergren (July 26, 1891-July 10, 1971).

Princess Christina, royal without Her Royal Highness title since marrying commoner Tord Magnusson, queued up most recently in wearing Queen Sophia's tiara as Elsa Cedergren's goddaughter. The Grand Duchess Hilda tiara theft April 29, 2017, resembles the Princess Christina tiara theft only as raids on one king's mother's and sister-in-law's royal jewels. King Gustaf V (June 16, 1858-Oct. 29, 1950), Prince Oscar's brother, and Queen Victoria (Aug. 7, 1862-April 4, 1930), Grand Duchess Hilda's sister-in-law, succeeded his parents.

Investigations into the Princess Christina tiara theft turned up one suspect even though no suspects turn up yet in the unrelated Grand Duchess Hilda tiara theft.

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson's apartment, the scene of the theft of her diamond and pearl tiara May 18, 2012, is located at Slottsbacken 2 (left), across from the Royal Palace's southern façade (right) and next to eastern façade Storkyrkan, Stockholm Cathedral (center), Gamla Stan, Stadsholmen Island, Stockholm, Sweden; 2004: Jürgen Howaldt, CC BY SA 2.0 Germany, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Five months before the theft of her diamond and pearl tiara, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, wears the tiara Dec. 10, 2011, at the annual Nobel Prize Banquet, Stockholm, Sweden; photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images: Ella Kay @courtjeweller, via Twitter Feb. 4, 2018, @ https://twitter.com/courtjeweller/status/960120890791997440

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson's apartment, the scene of the theft of her diamond and pearl tiara May 18, 2012, is located at Slottsbacken 2 (left), across from the Royal Palace's southern façade (right) and next to eastern façade Storkyrkan, Stockholm Cathedral (center), Gamla Stan, Stadsholmen Island, Stockholm, Sweden; 2004: Jürgen Howaldt, CC BY SA 2.0 Germany, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholm-Storkyrkan_01.jpg

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 April 2018. "Grand Duchess Hilda Diamond Tiara Theft April 29, 2017, in Baden, Germany." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/04/grand-duchess-hilda-diamond-tiara-theft.html

"Princess Christina's Diamond and Pearl Tiara." The Court Jeweller > 3 February 2018.
Available @ http://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2018/02/princess-christinas-diamond-and-pearl.html

"Swedish Royal Jewels Missing After Daring Theft." The Local > News > 14 June 2012.
Available @ https://www.thelocal.se/20120614/41442