Crown Princess Victoria's biography

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Victoria-crown princess of Sweden



Basic facts:

Name: Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée Bernadotte
Who is she: She is the eldest daughter of the present swedish king
Titles: crown princess of Sweden, duchess of Västergotland
Born: fourteenth of july 1977 in the Karolinska hospital (famous university-hospital in Stockholm)
Parents: King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 1946) and Queen Silvia Renate (nee Sommerlath, born 1943)
Siblings: prince Carl-Philip (born 1979) and princess Madeleine (born 1982)
Religion: lutheran-protestant


Victoria was born as first child of king Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia on the fourteenth of july 1977 at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm. Her height was 50 cm (19.7 inches) and she weighed 3250 grammes (6 and a half pounds). Little Victoria had her first meeting with the press at Solliden (summer residence of the Royal family on Öland, an island between Sweden and Finland)


Her baptism took place on the 27th of september (1977). As in high aristocratic circles common Victoria got more names, namely Victoria (like her great-great-grandmother Viktoria of Baden, later queen of Sweden) Ingrid (like her great-aunt, the late queen of Denmark) Alice (like her maternal grandmother) Désirée (like one of her paternal aunts). Desiree is also one of Victoria´s godmothers, the other godmother is Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (which was absent at the baptism), her godfathers are King Harald of Norway and Ralf Sommerlath (eldest brother of the Queen).

after the baptism:
After the baptism
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Victoria got all the attention of her proud parents, but in 1979 Victoria had to share this attention with a little brother, called Carl Philip Edmund Bertil. Until the beginning of 1980 her brother was the crown prince, but equality/women rights were also a big topic in Sweden, and so in 1980 a decision of the parliament became a law and Victoria became crown princess (Sweden was the first european country, which established this new line of succession-law, which enables the first child, male or female, to succeed the throne). It has been reported that the king was not fond of this new law and the Queen said in an interview, that it was a problem for them, because Carl Philip was already crown prince, and that it would have been better to enforce this law in the next generation.
In 1981 the Royal family moved from the big palace in Stockholm to Drottningholm palace, a palace in a suburb of Stockholm. Drottningholm seemed more attractive to the royal couple to raise their children, because it´s in opposite to Stockholm palace surrounded of a huge park .
In 1982 the Queen gave birth to a third child, a daughter called Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine.
Victoria, Carl Philip and Baby Madeleine


1982 was also the year in which Victoria started the Västerled parish pre-school/kindergarten, which she attended two years.
In August 1984 Victoria had her first school day at the Smedslättsskolan in Bromma (suburb of Stockholm), accompanied by mum and dad the princess looked quite skeptically and searched for the hand of her mother.

First school day: