Princess Madeleine (Sweden)

[Metizia]

The Swedish royal family and also the Danish, Greek, Belgian, Norwegan and Luxenborg royals also decend from Napoleon's first wife Josephine de Beauharnais.

[Mouse]

It's the suntan that ruins the effect. I generally think tans look horrible.

[nuharoo]

I agree. I am so sick and tired of seeing people with heavy tans.

[Fraggle Rock]

She and Jonas have ended their engagement.

Swedish princess Madeleine breaks off engagement
Sat Apr 24, 10:20 AM
By Louise Nordstrom, The Associated Press

STOCKHOLM - (AP) — Princess Madeleine of Sweden has broken off her engagement with attorney Jonas Bergstrom, the Royal Court announced Saturday.

"They have decided that the best for them is to go their separate ways," the palace said in a brief statement.

The court asked for the media to leave the princess and her former fiance alone.

"They need peace and quiet in this difficult situation. The heavy coverage does not ease the situation for them," it said, adding it would not comment further on the issue.

The couple announced their engagement in August last year, but a date had not yet been set for the wedding.

The reasons for the break up were not disclosed, but Norwegian magazine Se og Hoer published an interview this week with a woman named Tora Uppstroem Berg who claimed she had spent a night with the princess' fiance at a popular Swedish skiing resort last year.

The court has not commented on the report.

According to the Royal Court calendar, the princess is set to spend the next few weeks in the U.S. to work with the World Childhood Foundation.

Madeleine, 27, is third in line to the Swedish throne, after her sister Crown Princess Victoria and brother Prince Carl Philip. After completing an undergraduate degree in art, history and ethnology in 2006, she has combined studies in social affairs with work for the World Childhood Foundation in Stockholm.

Bergstrom, 31, has a master's degree in law and has worked as an associate lawyer at a firm in Stockholm since 2006.

Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine — the Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Halsingland and Gastrikland — is the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

She has two older siblings, Crown Princess Victoria who is getting married to her fiance Daniel Westling in June and Prince Carl Philip.

Better to break the engagement now than go through the inevitable divorce later on.

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Man, that sucks for her, but yeah, better now than having the press expose him after the wedding as a cheater (if that's even the case). I can't remember the last time a royal engagement was ended....

[PearlySweetcake]

Eeee! Just found out Princess Madeleine is coming to my workplace next Friday! Guess we'd better spiffy up the place....

[Aspasia]

Apr 29, 2010 22:40:11 GMT -4 PearlySweetcake said:

Eeee! Just found out Princess Madeleine is coming to my workplace next Friday! Guess we'd better spiffy up the place....

Ask her if she likes the Ranger's hockey team. According to some sites she is dating the goalie Henrik Lundqvist.

[PearlySweetcake]

"Hejsan, Madeleine! Vad tycker du om Rangers?" My bosses'll love me for that.

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Madeleine is engaged once again, to US financier Chris O'Neill.

I do hope she'll get married for good this time.

[Ginger]

"Financier" = money hungry social climber. But it's better than circus performer, or whoever that bozo was that Princess Stephanie married.

From the People article:

Since he is not a blood relative, O'Neill could never be king, although any children he has with Madeleine would be in line to the throne.

That is such a weird and wrong thing to say I don't even know where to start.