Madeleine made to wait for royal wedding
Published: 13 Apr 10 08:23 CET | Print version
Updated: 14 Apr 10 11:48 CET
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Sweden's Princess Madeleine, third in line to the Swedish throne, will have to wait before tying the knot to her beau Jonas Bergström, Queen Silvia confirmed on Tuesday, according to the Aftonbladet tabloid.
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Jonas Bergström told news agency TT when announcing the couple's engagement that their wedding was planned for the late autumn or during the winter of 2010.
But it has now been made clear that the couple will in fact not take their nuptials this year, amid widespread Swedish media reports that indicate that couple are going through a rough patch in their relationship.
"Unfortunately, there will be no wedding this year. It goes without saying that there is a lot going on right now... I think that Madeleine has the right to a quiet time at her own wedding," Queen Silvia told the newspaper.
The announcement in August 2009 that Madeleine was due to follow Victoria down the aisle took many royal watchers in Sweden by surprise, coming so soon after her big sister's announcement.
Princess Madeleine, who is 197th in line to the British throne through distant family links to Queen Victoria, and Jonas Bergström, who is a lawyer from the exclusive Stockholm suburb of Djursholm, have been together for eight years.
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Puss puss
The Swedish press are reporting that the couple may be on the verge of splitting up and haven't been seen at public events together since last year
Best is to have them both married at the same day....save alot of taxpayers' money, good for media....and lots of publicity if that's what they are looking for. 2 birds in one stone.
Not happy to have my tax contributions to be spend this way, rather be more happy if the money is use for social workand the homeless. Anyway royal family are loaded. Whatever they get for monthly alllowance and expenses is much more than majority of the people living and earning per month for a whole year.
There are two questions here. Do you want to be governed this way? What are the costs and benefits? Don't mix them up.
Your royal family is not so expensive - you would still have to keep the palaces up if they weren't there to decorate them. They aren't monsters. There are serious questions about the wisdom of a congenital aristocracy, but the same questions could be asked about media barons, I guess.
well, i was once told by a fourteen year old from djursholm that she lived in the "best neighborhood" and that she was "the cleanest child" in her school. so perhaps it is this cleanest child standard that keeps djursholm exclusive! didn't one of the other posts say peropaco should wash his/her face? see, it's that clean theme again...
furthermore, i agree with peropaco. poo poo on elitism. there's so much to love in lovely sweden, but i'm also discovering i so love french attitude! it's so very often just what i was thinking! vive la france! :)
I think they would say let's have a big Wedding and show off the country to the tourists.