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#41
10-22-2004, 03:40 PM
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Her title is "Queen"
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#42
10-22-2004, 08:13 PM
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I was afraid you were going to say that.
I was trying to work up an excuse for Daniel to go around and let himself be called "King Consort". I mean, if the wive of a king is allowed to call herself queen, how fair is it for the husband of a queen to be called a prince consort?
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#43
12-05-2004, 05:30 PM
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Daniel and the press
If the king would act more charming, would the press immediately start to write nice things about him? Or when the press would write nice articles on him, would he start to act friendlier.
IMO it´s not just the fault of the press, or Carl Gustaf´s "boring" look. There are kings, who get positive feedback! The same for Daniel Westling. Would he smile and start to stop his angry looks, if they would write nice things about him and would they write in a nicer way about him, when he would smile??? Last edited by Marengo; 03-12-2008 at 08:32 AM.
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#44
12-05-2004, 06:24 PM
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You know, I'm getting the impressions that the media isn't too fond of Daniel very much. I'm sure he smiles more often, but I guess those pictures aren't as profitable as catching him in a bad mood. I often wonder just how much the media likes to twist things to their advantage.
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#45
12-05-2004, 10:55 PM
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What has compelled him to turn sour - lack of media attention ?
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#46
12-06-2004, 12:28 AM
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I won´t speak for others but enlightened opinion has told me that the king is rather bored in his job. Think about it. He has had this job for 31 years. He has known that he would get that job for another 20 years before that. Maybe just a bit of boredom is creeping in. Also there´s the point of the media. He rarely gives interviews as has been noted before and I have a feeling that photographers belong for him on the Dante´s 9th circle of hell as well. Not least of all because of all of the trouble they have caused his family through the years. A protective father. We should admire that. I recall reading a book that there was an incident a few years after he and Silvia were married where he was light-hearted or spontaneous(think of Mary´s flying hat) and in the book, they said that Silvia largely loosened him up as we say in the American vernacular and that such a moment could never have happened before they were married. Also we know that two of his children have had a certain shyness about them. And even Madeleine, bless her, I suspect there is something shy about her that will come closer to the surface as the years pass. This shyness is no doubt inherited from their father.
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#48
05-25-2005, 07:13 AM
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Last edited by Marengo; 03-14-2008 at 09:00 AM.
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#49
06-11-2005, 11:31 AM
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Article on Daniel and his business:
http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=298915 Fast translation by me: Now Daniel wants to become the king of gyms Crown princess Victorias boyfriend Daniel Westling, 31, doesn´t think about being a prince one day No, he aims higher than this. He wants to become king. The king of gyms. Daniel Westling owns 70% (haven´t we read, that Benny owns the bigger part of the cake?) of the health and training-business Master Training. There he fell in love with a sporty customer-the crown princess. Now he´s putting in two top managers for his business-Gunnel Edenius, Information technology-boss for Länsförsäkringar (union of insurance companies) and Johan Ericsson, MD for Catella Property and a good friend to Daniels secret advisor Mats Jansson, manager for the Alex Johnson inc. [...] Closes every month with a plus. In Dagens Industri Daniel Westling tells, that he has enlarged his business with one more gym. -We invested money in it, now it looks good. We close with a plus (asset) every month for both places. -The health care (fitness) branch is a bit backwards in Sweden in comparison to other countries. We want to reach a bigger target group, he says to DI (maybe to cheapen the fees could help  )Daniel Westling has been an enterpriser for 5 years. -I love ("burn for" in the original text) that, what I do, I want to make decisions and I want to carry things out. To control/manage things and to get them running, this is my driving force. * "Talks never about customers" Daniel says nothing about it, how the development of his business was influenced through being Victorias boyfriend. -We never speak about our customers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Oioioi, the red marked text is either a smart strategy or it´s a stab directly into the heart of the crown princess. I wonder, how this thing about the managers/advisors can be seen. Is he searching for advise because his business is growing so fast and so strong or is he searching for managing directors, so that he can concentrate on other things (???)
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#50
06-12-2005, 06:09 PM
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I don't understand the problem with Mr. Wrestling. If he makes Victoria happy, then I'm happy for her and them both. I think young royals have learned that you marry who makes you happy not for lineage or names. Look Frederick, Felipe, Haakon and now Charles, they all have married how they loved in the end. I don't think that Wrestlings business deals has anything to do with anything because if they were questionable Victoria wouldn't be spending to much time with him. I am sure she has people looking after her best interest.
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#51
06-12-2005, 06:24 PM
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Well but raising a business contradicts the expected engagement! As prince consort he cannot go to work at least not in a private business. If he would be state employed it would be well maybe ok I think. Even working at a private company would make the people suspicous I think!
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#52
06-12-2005, 06:25 PM
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And so I wonder (and that´s why I´ve marked the one part red) how Daniel will be able to deal with the complete change from being an independent enterpriser to being an hard controlled employee of the state and being inferior to the monarch (who will be later his own wife). Ok, what I say here doesn´t matter for the two, but I though hope they will become happy with each other or at least satisfied.
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#53
06-12-2005, 06:32 PM
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#54
06-12-2005, 06:34 PM
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Well, maybe the interview is a bit older (??) or maybe this is pure strategy and Daniel wants to get out of the business with a "bang" and doesn´t want to give us too many signs in advance. Both are already giving many signs in their private life, so maybe he wants to be carefully with the business (??) Well, then it would be better not to talk to DI at all. I wonder, if he has any ideas, why he is interviewed of DI. Surely not because he is such an good enterpriser...I´ve checked their online archive. They haven´t featured any other gym. Even not the big chains, which own 10 gyms and more
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06-12-2005, 06:40 PM
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06-12-2005, 06:42 PM
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06-12-2005, 06:47 PM
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My guess is, that Daniel will do pretty much that, what the other prince consorts did. But I think he will focus a bit stronger on charity, then they did. I´m sure (when he is the one) he will end up with a sports foundation, helping/supporting children and teenagers. Maybe he will do some health campaigns (against smoking, drinking too much, eating unhealthy, couch potatoes) and will act as Co-author of books. IMO doing this he would feel like a duck in the water and this would be the easiest way to come to an arrangement with the other "boring" things he has to do (attending galas, watching plays in theaters etc.)
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