The wedding of Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and Silvia Sommerlath took place on Friday, 19 June 1976 at Storkyrkan.

It was the first marriage of a reigning Swedish monarch since King Gustav IV Adolf married Princess Frederica of Baden in 1797.

In 1972, then Crown Prince Carl Gustaf attended the Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where interpreter Silvia Sommerlath was charged with escorting him.

Sommerlath was unable to join the King for the celebrations of Sweden's National Day on 6 June due to illness.

At the insistence of the king's sisters, Silvia wore the Connaught Diamond Tiara which had been a favourite of their late mother.

The Church of Sweden ceremony was officiated by Olof Sundby, Archbishop of Uppsala, in Storkyrkan, the bride's uncle, theologian The Rev.

The bride wore a silk duchesse satin gown with a high neck, long sleeves, slim skirt and train extending from the shoulders designed by Marc Bohan for Dior.

Sommerlath wore a lace veil that had belonged to Queen Sofia and was worn by the King's mother and sisters on their wedding days.

[6] The bride's mother discreetly placed a handkerchief around her daughter's wrist with a rubber band, this is visible in some photos.

[7] Upon marriage, Sommerlath immediately became Queen Consort of Sweden, the first since the death of Louise Mountbatten, her husband's step-grandmother, eleven years earlier.