Thomas and Mina Edison welcome Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden to Glenmont, the Edisons’ 33‑room Victorian estate in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, on June 2, 1926.
The royal couple was visiting America on their way to Philadelphia to see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, part of a goodwill tour honoring the deep ties between Sweden and the more than one million Swedish immigrants and their American‑born descendants who helped shape communities across the United States. Their stop at Glenmont and the Edison Laboratories symbolized the meeting of Old World royalty with New World innovation — one of the last major diplomatic receptions of Edison’s later life.
