Twitter full of praise for Swedish royals for carrying their own bags at airport

The Royal Swedish couple King Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus and Queen Silvia Renate Sommerlath are on their second visit to India and this time they are winning the internet. Reason? Their humble action. The royal couple carried their own handbags which won the hearts of netizens. 

Netizens were left impressed by the humble nature of the royals. Being a royalty it is expected that a staff member will carry around their belongings, but the royals preferred to do it themselves.

The Royal Swedish couple is in India for a five-day visit and met President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was received by Member of Parliament Babul Supriyo at the New Delhi airport.

King Carl and Queen Silvia both traveled to India in the national air carrier Air India AI168 from Stockholm. Their pictures at the airport were tweeted by Air India's Twitter handle and went viral immediately. 

#FlyAI : Very Proud moment of Air India when we had a Special Guest onboard. His Majesty Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus , King of Sweden and Her Majesty Silvia Renate Sommerlath travelled AI168 Stockholm to Delhi. Ms. Sangeeta Sanyal Country Manager Sweden greeted the Royal guests. pic.twitter.com/LXrLeEoDqd

— Air India (@airindiain) December 2, 2019

Social media users were impressed with the royals for ending the VIP culture and carrying their belongings themselves. 

Very very inspirational and humbling to see the King and Queen of Sweden carry their own bags on board. #Salute https://t.co/Qj7scmzJgQ

— Sanjiv Kapoor (@TheSanjivKapoor) December 2, 2019

Wow carrying his own luggage. No vip business. When do we learn from them and shed the babu culture?

— Basu (@BosuBasudeb) December 2, 2019

Great moment. And I noticed . The King is carrying his suitcase !!! Good lesson. Impressed.

— Tarun Vijay @Tarunvijay) December 3, 2019

Very very inspirational and humbling to see the King and Queen of Sweden carry their own bags on board. #Salute https://t.co/Qj7scmzJgQ

— Sanjiv Kapoor (@TheSanjivKapoor) December 2, 2019

That's how it should be without fanfare...God bles the Royal Couple...a lot to learn from them

— Col Kaaushik Sircar (@SircarKaushik) December 2, 2019

Netizens also praised royals for flying commercial instead of taking private jets.

Inspiring to see a king travel by a commercial service and that too of another country's airline. In these times of economic slowdown can India's leaders not demonstrate the same frugality?

— Bangalore Aviation (@BLRAviation) December 2, 2019

They fly commercial and he carries his own luggage. https://t.co/zCbYGtVoMF

— Gaurav Probir Pramanik (@gauravpramanik) December 2, 2019

This is the second state visit to India by the Swedish royal couple. The first was in 1993.

It is the fourth high-level exchange between Sweden and India since 2015 when former President Pranab Mukherjee was on a historic first state visit to Sweden. In 2016, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven visited India and in 2018 PM Modi visited Sweden.