Princess Madeleine takes time out after split
Published: 7 May 10 17:19 CET | Print version
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Princess Madeleine has decided to take a time out from official engagements in order to give her time to deal with her aborted engagement to lawyer Jonas Bergström, the Royal Court in Stockholm has announced.
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"She needs personal time and peace and quiet. Madeleine is not feeling too good," Nina Eldh at the Royal Court told the newspaper.
The court confirmed that the princess has cancelled all engagements up to May 30th, the date for the publication of the marriage banns for Victoria and Daniel Westling.
Madeleine travelled to the USA at the end of April to fulfil a series of engagements and to escape the media glare after revelations over Bergström's alleged dalliance with a Norwegian handball player.
Calls from the palace to leave the Princess in peace as she adjusts to life without her erstwhile fiancé fell on deaf ears however as Scandinavian news teams were joined at Newark Airport by international paparazzi photographers.
But the Princess succeeded in leaving the airport undetected by reporters and photographers after the well-documented turbulence in her relationship with Jonas Bergström culminated in the April 24th announcement that the couple had chosen to go their separate ways.
Princess Madeleine's engagement book was scheduled to keep her in the United States until May 9th, with a lengthy spell at the World Childhood Foundation, an organization founded by her mother Queen Silvia ending with the trip to Seattle.
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Wonderful. Hope every job would understand licence for broken heart...
How do you take time out from doing nothing?
First the court claimed she was taking Time Out from Sweden to fly off to New York for her important "work" at the World Childhood Foundation. Ah, so good and noble of her.
But now it seems she's taking time out from even that non-job.
Anyway, I am glad she went to the USA! Its a great place to take a vacation and a lot of Swedes do it. And the fact that a beautiful Swedish princess chooses the USA to take a break is very flattering!
Madeline deserves to find someone who truly loves her. Its good she found this out before her marriage then after. Otherwise she would have been forced to stay in an unhappy marriage with a man who wonders. No relationship is perfect but maybe she can find someone better.
Larry king is busy now drawing your dad as ..... ;)
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And no, she didn't choose to be born a Princess. But she could renounce it couldn't she?
Much of these posts reflect negativity and resentment of the royal family. I agree with Sheridan. Princess Madeleine could not control the conditions of her birth any more than any one of us could. She is human and feels pain and to celebrate her pain is a debased and corrosive emotion and act. You put yourselves at the bottom of the pile by such attitudes. You don't need the comparative of a royal house to do that for you.
Finialy, to NickM: Do you think that you would enjoy being asked to denounce yourself? Think about it, man.
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