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Sweden’s Princess Madeleine said in an interview on Thursday that it saddens her to be erroneously accused of living a life of luxury in New York at the expense of Swedish taxpayers.
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i'll never forgive the royal family for that.
Events with Champaign, fine food, 3-5 course meals. Mostly the term "Charity work" for these people means - socializing with other rich people, dining, entertainment and maybe passing a few dollars into an envelope to make themselves feel better about these absurdly expensive events.
oops, wrong princess.
my bad.
However she ought to realise that she has opportunities and a priviledged life based not on her own efforts but who her father was - perhaps a little more humility would be in order
Americans give more to charity than most nations, so her charity work is likely to be more successful there, in terms of the amount of funds she is able to raise.
Also good to be able to live and enjoy her life with slightly less media attention, good or bad, than she might be getting here in Sweden.
Maybe she was given that dress for free for marketing purposes. :)
yeah, i was thinking of her sisters wedding that the swedish taxpayers were forced to pay for.
Go get a job and do what YOU want, I am happy to see the next generation,out in the world, they are part of history, get over it.
Surely that would satisfy everyone, socialist, capitalist, royalist and republicans alike.
Sad are those who need to work hardly to give you a better life. When we, Swede, are sjukskriven and Fkassan pays us money, we can´t leave Sweden. So, if we don´t know what you´re doing in NYC, why will we spend our money in vain?
I heard may royals, politicians hide behind this excuse to do F-ck all.
@Reason abd Realism
Yeah, but America gets all its money from China. So maybe her time would be better spent there. You know, cut out da middle man!!
Did you only have to pay for royal weddings not also forced to lose a day's pay because the royals declared a public holiday for it. That's what my English family had to put up with last year.
@the article itself
"representing Sweden when she is asked to do so."
Given how much money is being used to support them all, surely she should not need to be asked.
And since she is "sad" that her employer (aka the tax payers) don't appreciate her and her choices of where or how to justify her employment. Then maybe she should "resign" and find another employer, who is willing to pay her and let her decide what her job description, hours and payment are.
Personally I think she would make a great employee working for the NY tourist board.
But Madeline is just one of many Swedish "royals" who spend public taxes, but choose to live abroad claiming they work as ambassadors to Sweden.
It's only good for her that she's there, given her embarrassing history of sleeping around and making a fool of herself around Europe. She can hide there and I doubt there are many (if any) Swedish journalists who would follow her around NY.
As for her representing Sweden, there are not many Americans who even know about a Swedish royal family existing and they wouldn't care about it anyway. Therefore, anybody from Sweden living in NY should be able to represent Sweden depending on their qualifications and the situation, such as teacher, doctor, lawyer, etc,. not some puppet title like princess who wouldn't have a clue what she's talking about. She studied law at Stockholm University when I was studying there. I remember the heavy security presence whenever she had a lecture. What a waste of time and real waste of taxpayers money that was.
@ #6 Abe L
You have a point, and although I'm by no means defending immigrants but as much money and freedom as they get, they are still not living the luxurious lifestyle like the royal puppets. Most still battle to make ends meet but it's still easier than the lifestyle they came from in their countries. Plus a lot of the children of immigrants will be different. They are more likely to assimilate than their parents and work hard rather than living on welfare. The current royal children, i.e. Vic, Carl and Mad, are no different to their parents. I doubt Estelle will be any different either given the lack of intelligence in her family. The only way to abolish the royal family is for more people to stand up for Sweden. Many Swedes I know think the royals are good for Swedish PR. But it's a load of hogwash since most people outside Sweden don't know who the royals here are and wouldn't care less anyway. Sweden is rarely known for it's royals. Princess Estelle's birth didn't even get a mention in most other countries in Europe and beyond. What a wonderful PR start she's off to.
We have no use for a royal family here. We have a (more or less) democratically elected government.
US is far ahead of Sweden in many things. Constitutional law is an example. Individual rights is another. Not excepting the fact that had US not taken the side of the Allies during WW2, ( something Sweden embarrassingly failed to do) Europe would be a different place than what it is.....
US is also the leading economy. Whatever happens in the US affects the whole world. US is also where the greatest innovations are from. Third world country it is not. Sweden rides upon the coattails of the US in every area. With the exception of its healthcare....
I'm not a yank.....
To the more cynical, the Swedish royals can be seen as a state-funded lottery. Daniel, who a few years ago was a personal trainer, has won the most recent edition of the lottery, and so he not only gets a very beautiful wife, but all of his descendents will forever live luxuriously, get to make speeches, and get various institutions named after them, etc...
Unfortunately with Madeleine in New York it is more difficult to compete for her hand in marriage from here, so the lottery is biased toward foreign bachelors at the moment, and this is a legitimate basis for dismay, particularly for single men who reside in Sweden who are are between the age of 30 and 40 I guess. At least young girls in Sweden can still chase Carl Philip if he is still single these days.
She claims to not receive a paycheck for her charity work, but she also claims that the only thing that Swedish tax pays for is her travel.
Who is taking care of her living expenses and allowance then?
New York is not a cheap city to live in, especially when you're living the life of a princess. That must include a luxury flat, designer clothes, drivers, fine food, partying etc.
I don't think she's being purposely deceitful, but she definitely sounds naive since she doesn't think she's living a life of luxury.
Doesn't make sense at all to keep these leeches of the people still in society living luxury lives while everybody else as to work hard..
To YRH Madeleine- http://youtu.be/k5eHKysZnM0
I can see where the attention of people like HK might annoy her.
Seems to me Sweden hasn't treated her well though. I would have thought the former boyfriend lawyer would have trouble finding clients but apparently Sweden latched onto him and ejected her.
" I did make a decision what to do me, not you."
"Because I have sanguine temperament and I am free man European - I feel wonderful without hypnosis, and without chemicals."
Just two examples of how you play with words/ syntaxis and your audience. People nowadays keep to the facts or literally copying everything they see or read, but not you.
Also this is benign if science ever came this far.