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Amazing royal Swedish wedding

Royal wed­ding in Stock­holm on June 19 2010. Photo: Michael Cavén/CC BY. Click to view on Flickr.

The wed­ding [SvD, SvD, DN] between Swedish Crown Princess Vic­to­ria and Prince Daniel (Daniel West­ling) is com­pletely off topic for this blog. But here are some com­ments anyway.

Like so many other Swedes who live out­side of Stock­holm, I spent much of Sat­ur­day fol­low­ing the wed­ding and cel­e­bra­tions from the TV in my liv­ing room.

Although in favour of the cur­rent Swedish monar­chy, I don’t nor­mally spend much atten­tion on the where­abouts of the royal fam­ily. How­ever, yesterday’s wed­ding was formidable.

Enor­mous crowds filled the streets of Stock­holm, and despite reg­u­lar whin­ings in the media by some Swedish repub­li­cans it was more evi­dent than ever that the Swedes love their roy­al­ties. Swedish TV SVT fol­lowed the wed­ding as it con­tin­ued inside the royal cas­tle. Sim­i­lar pic­tures have rarely if ever been shown to the pub­lic before. In other words inter­est­ing in itself for that reason.

I was amazed by the talk­ing skills of Prince Daniel and his father Olle West­ling. Swedish king Carl XVI Gus­tav has always been known for his rel­a­tively poor rhetor­i­cal skills.

Much mate­r­ial includ­ing video is avail­able on SVT’s web­site.

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