ABBA RECEIVES ROYAL AWARD [SUBTITLED] (2024)

23:50 ABBA receives award for outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life.

ROYAL SWORD ORDER
Lieutenant General Dennis Gyllensporre
Commander with the large cross of the King. Sword Order
For exceptional leadership under war-like conditions in Mali
Gyllensporre has both a long, well-merited and well-honored service in the Swedish Armed Forces and has been a military expert at the Ministry of Defense and a military expert in the Defense Committee.

Colonel of the 1st rank Ulf Henricsson
Commander of the first class of the King. Sword Order
Too much exemplary leadership under war-like conditions in the former Yugoslavia
Henricsson was the head of BA01 which was part of Nordbat 2 in the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) during organization, training and implementation in 1993–1994.

ROYAL ORDER OF THE NORTH STAR
Professor Svante Pääbo
Commander with the large cross of the King. Order of the North Star
For outstanding research efforts
Since 1997, Pääbo has been director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

Professor Anne L'Huillier Wahlström
Commander with the large cross of the King. Order of the North Star
For outstanding research efforts
L'Huillier Wahlström was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for studies of electron dynamics in matter.

Third embassy secretary Catarina Wingren
Knight of the King Order of the North Star
For decisive engagement in connection with Swedish international peace efforts in Mali
Wingren studied French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and then at the School of Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Wingren was first a bank clerk, and then moved to business as a marketing and purchasing assistant.

ROYAL VASA ORDER
Director Antonia Ax:son Johnson
Commander with the large cross of the King. The Vasa Order
For extraordinary efforts in business and other sectors of society
Ax:son Johnson is a Swedish family entrepreneur in the fourth generation. During the years 1982–2015, she was chairman of the board of Axel Johnson AB, which was founded in 1873 by her great-grandfather, Axel Johnson.

The artist Benny Andersson
Commander of the first class of the King. The Vasa Order
For very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life

The artist Agnetha Fältskog
Commander of the first class of the King. The Vasa Order
For very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life

The artist Anni-Frid Reuss
Commander of the first class of the King. The Vasa Order
For very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life

The artist Björn Ulvaeus
Commander of the first class of the King. The Vasa Order
For very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life

ABBA is one of the biggest groups in music history and is one of the few to have achieved success on all continents. In the mid-1970s, they were the world's most successful pop group in terms of sales. Abba has close to 70 chart-topping singles worldwide and over 60 albums. In 2014, the group had sold 400 million records and is thus Sweden's most successful music export of all time. Abba also became the first pop group from Continental Europe/Nordic Europe to achieve major success in the English-speaking world for an extended period of time. On November 5, 2021, the album Voyage was released, In mid-2022, the Abba Voyage concert experience was launched in a purpose-built arena in London, called Abba Arena.

Actress Eva Rydberg
Commander of the Royal The Vasa Order
For long and successful involvement in the performing arts
Rydberg is and has been active as an actor, comedian, theater manager, singer, clown, dancer and choreographer.

Sociologist Bettan Byvald
Knight of the first class of the King. The Vasa Order
For many years of significant social work
Byvald is a trained leisure leader and sociologist, and she did her internship during her education at the University of Social Sciences in the district of Hjällbo in Angered in the mid-80s.

Business area manager Thomas Sjöström
Knight of the King The Vasa Order
Too much personal courage during the Swedish evacuation from Kabul
Sjöström has worked as a police officer for 13 years and since 2013 has held various management positions at the security company Vesper Group's missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.