Crown Princess Victoria 45 years: one mission above all others

Crown Princess of Sweden Victoria turns 45 on Thursday, July 14.

The future queen’s birthday is a big holiday in Sweden. The royal family greets people at Solliden Castle and the people get to sing their congratulatory songs to the hero with a children’s choir. After this, Victoria and her family take a tour in a horse-drawn carriage. The tour through Borgholm takes about an hour.

Victoria and the prince take part in the evening’s festivities at the ruins of Borgholm Castle Daniel’s in addition, the king Kaarle Kustaa and the queen Silviaa prince Carl Philip and the princess Sophia and the princess Madeleine.

Spouse of Madeleine Chris O’Neill does not take part in the birthday party. The family has spent the summer in Sweden, but O’Neill has had to temporarily return to the United States due to work duties.

At the Victoria Day evening party, the Crown Princess awards the Victoria Scholarship to an alpine skier For Ebba Årsjö. The event will also include music by a conductor by Stefan Sporsén under.

The king’s firstborn

Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée was born on July 14, 1977 as a Crown Princess. The king wanted to protect his first-born from photographers, so the first year the pictures of the princess seen in public were mainly taken by the father.

Victoria’s position as future ruler was threatened when she was barely two years old when Carl Philip was born. The law of succession favored male members of the royal family, with the younger brother becoming the crown prince. The law was amended later that year, despite the king’s opposition, and Victoria was restored to the title of heir to the crown. Little sister Madeleine was born in 1982.

Heavy youth

For the young royals, the parents’ busy work schedule was heavy. Victoria embraced the authority of a big sister at a young age. For example, the crown princess has said that she was manically worried about being late, and could drag her reluctant little brother to school an hour early.

At school, young Victoria’s challenge was dyslexia. The crown princess, who suffered from pressure to perform, has said that she felt stupid and that there was something wrong with her. When the guys went to town and for coffee, Victoria stayed at home to study.

Around the time she came of age, Victoria became ill with an eating disorder. Anorexia worsened when, after high school, she moved to France for a year to study in 1996. The court announced the illness in 1997, and the young crown princess was sent to the United States to recover.

In 2017, the Crown Princess said in a documentary on Swedish TV4 that she set higher and higher standards for herself at the time, as the responsibility of the future monarch increased and the number of representative tasks increased. At the same time, he was the object of increasing public attention.

The love of life

In 2001, Madeleine took her recovering sister to the gym. The following year, Victoria was already dating her personal trainer, Daniel Westling. The engagement was announced in 2009, in July 2010 the wedding was celebrated in front of millions of witnesses.

The firstborn daughter who charmed the whole world Estelle was born in early 2012, little brother Oscar in 2016. Although the crown princess continues to represent diligently and holds her position of birth in high esteem, one task stands above all else for her. Victoria is known as a caring and loving mother, for whom children are everything.

Source: Stoppa Presssarna, Svenska Damtidning, Expressen