Flora Vesterberg Celebrated Her Fifth Wedding Anniversary at an Art Museum on the Stockholm Archipelago

Flora Vesterberg and Timothy Vesterberg celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in September at the contemporary cultural center Artipelag in Sweden. “Our celebration took place over the National Day of Sweden,” explains Flora, who is an art historian and philanthropist and the second cousin, once removed, of King Charles III. “My parents and godparents kindly hosted an aperitivo the evening before. [And then,] the following morning, we led our guests around the galleries Thielska Galleriet, Galerie Storm, and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde.”

Flora and Timothy were introduced by Alexander Danielsson, who served as best man when they married in 2020. “I met Alexander whilst living in Paris for a Sotheby’s internship,” Flora says. “He studied with Timothy at the Stockholm School of Economics and eventually introduced us at The Westbourne in London a few years later. The three of us then joined other Scandinavian friends in swimming in the Serpentine early on weekday mornings. Timothy and I fell in love and became engaged within six months.”

Timothy proposed in The Queen’s Temple, a quiet pavilion close to the Serpentine in London with a ring designed with Hancocks in St. James’s. “It is a lovely pear-shaped Victorian diamond set in a contemporary band with a meaningful Swedish inscription.” They then held a private ceremony in September 2020 at the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace, before hosting a larger wedding a year later once pandemic lockdown restrictions had eased.

For their fifth-year anniversary, they decided to gather friends and family together for a special celebration, now that the pandemic is firmly in the rearview mirror. To do so, they chose Artipelag, which was designed by the Swedish architect Johan Nyrén on Värmdö Island along the Stockholm Archipelago, for their venue. The location was an easy decision due to Timothy having grown up in Sweden, and the fact Flora is studying for a PhD at The Courtauld focusing on Scandinavian art. “We always feel calm in nature [when we’re there],” Flora notes. “My father James Ogilvy is the landscape designer behind Ogilvy Landscape Design, and so I knew that he would also feel inspired by the wildness of Värmdö Island. Timothy and I both have very loving and supportive families, and so it felt special for them to be in Stockholm with us.”