Crown Princess Victoria Gets Married
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling, her former fitness trainer, will hold their wedding ceremony at the Cathedral here Saturday afternoon.
“The preparation for the wedding ceremony is a process of reflecting history in Sweden,” said Nina Eldh, head of the Information Department at the Swedish Royal Court.
Royal Historian Goran Alm outlined the history to the Swedish crown.
“You can wonder why Sweden had a French Prince become the Swedish Crown,” he said. “This is because, before 1810, Sweden lost one third of its land, lost Finland to Russia. Sweden needed a hero. So they chose a French Prince, Jean Benadotte, to become Swedish King.”
“He indeed gave Sweden peace. Benadotte’s son, Carl, married a young princess whose father was Napoleon’s stepson on June 19, 1823, in the Cathedral. And that was a Saturday. Since then, Victoria’s wedding will be the fifth to be held on a Saturday. Victoria’s parents married on the same day in 1976 in the same church. And the pastor on Saturday will wear the same clothes as the pastor wore in 1823,” the historian said in an early briefing.
The fact the Crown Princess is to marry an ordinary man is also a kind of tradition because her father, the current king Carl XVI Gustaf, married an ordinary woman, Silvia from Germany. The low key royal family enjoys a good reputation in Swedish society even though there is a drop in support lately.
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