Sweden's Victoria and Daniel mark a year since engagement with intimate dinner

Hello Magazine ^ | 04 MARCH 2010 | Hello Magazine

[Niuhuru]

Some nice news amidst all the depressing stuff.

[Kaslin]

Why is this posted under crime and corruption? Please clarify?

[Niuhuru]

My bad, I meant something else. Sorry. I will gladly recieve my chastisement. Let me go to the cupboard and put on my naughty Freeper outfit.

[MinuteGal]

Fairy-tale princesses....and a pretty handsome prince, also.

Leni

[Niuhuru]

She looks like a princess really is. She’s among the most accomplished royals in Europe. Speaks several languages, well prepared for her position through training in diplomacy and military.

[Travis McGee]

[Niuhuru]

Beautiful, utterly beautiful. Dazzling really. Her future husband helped her through her anorexia and was her personal trainer.

[Poe White Trash]

Beautiful. Any idea who is pictured on her broach?

[Timmy]

You oughta see her sister, Madeleine.

[no dems]

Click on the link; the dude looks like Al Franken. For real.

[GreenLanternCorps]

It looks like her father, the King.

[Niuhuru]

Yeah, but I mean she’s distinguished as a Crown Princess should be.

[stripes1776]

Beautiful, utterly beautiful. Dazzling really. Her future husband helped her through her anorexia and was her personal trainer.

Is it the custom of Swedish royalty to marry commoners?

[Niuhuru]

Queen Silvia is a commoner by birth. She has also had plastic surgery too.

[stripes1776]

Queen Silvia is a commoner by birth.

So Victoria's father married a commoner, and Victoria will do as father did. I assume that Victoria will not inherit the crown.

[Fractal Trader]

The Swedes “invented” their royalty. At the time of its creation, there was no hereditary royalty, so they chose a commoner and made him king.

[Niuhuru]

Yeah. The current Swedish royals are the descendants of Napoleon’s general Bernadotte, which is their surname.

[Mila]

"I assume that Victoria will not inherit the crown."

On the contrary, Victoria is destined to inherit the throne from her father.

From Wikipedia-

"She was made Crown Princess and heir apparent on 1 January 1980 by the change made in 1979 to the Act of Succession of 1810 (Successionsordningen). This constitutional reform meant that the throne would be inherited by the monarch's eldest child without regard to gender. Sweden was the first country to adopt equal primogeniture. This not only made Victoria the first heiress apparent to the Swedish throne, but also made her the first female in the line of succession. The retroactive constitutional change was apparently not supported by her father, who favored his son as heir-apparent because he was born as such, a view that has been commented on in the media.[2]"

[stripes1776]

On the contrary, Victoria is destined to inherit the throne from her father.

So the Swedes changed the constitution so Victoria could inherit her father's crown. How very Swedish.

[kalee]

They also had a childless King Carl XIII who adopted a French commoner, one of Napoleon’s Field Marshals, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte who later Carl XIV Johan of Sweden.
The current Swedish royal family is of The House of Bernadotte and are his descendants.