Posted on 03/05/2010 7:44:24 PM PST by Niuhuru
It seems like yesterday, but a year has already passed since Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling announced their engagement.
And ahead of the giant party planned for their June nuptials, the couple chose to celebrate in intimate style.
According to Swedish magazine Svensk Damtidning, the pair gathered their closest friends for a secret dinner in Stockholm restaurant Operakällaren.
There, over a meal cooked by chef Stefano Catenacci, who will also provide the food at Victoria and Daniels' wedding, the party toasted the future happiness of the couple.
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Why is this posted under crime and corruption? Please clarify?
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.
Leni
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.
Beautiful, utterly beautiful. Dazzling really. Her future husband helped her through her anorexia and was her personal trainer.
Beautiful. Any idea who is pictured on her broach?
Click on the link; the dude looks like Al Franken. For real.
It looks like her father, the King.
Yeah, but I mean she’s distinguished as a Crown Princess should be.
Is it the custom of Swedish royalty to marry commoners?
Queen Silvia is a commoner by birth. She has also had plastic surgery too.
So Victoria's father married a commoner, and Victoria will do as father did. I assume that Victoria will not inherit the crown.
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.
Yeah. The current Swedish royals are the descendants of Napoleon’s general Bernadotte, which is their surname.
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]"
So the Swedes changed the constitution so Victoria could inherit her father's crown. How very Swedish.
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.
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