I give that right back to you. Sometimes I think you're the only one here who's fair with with herself. I think a lot of those who want CP to be holier than the pope himself are not able to see what they demand of him. Yes, he is a prince and yes, he lives, in some ways, of the money of the swedish taxpayers (because if you take a closer look you won't see any appanages for him in the papers. Only for the king and the crown princess if I'm informed correctly. He only gets what daddy gives him. The SRF wouldn't get more or less money from the taxpayers with or without CP in the picture), but all this doesn't mean he does have to give up his privacy 24/7. He's still a human being. No-one ever took away his ability to make own decisions.
So, if Victoria (as heir) was allowed to marry a fitness coach, let CP have fun with a model who posed nude years (!!!) ago. No-one talks about them getting married (apart from some crazy german yellowpress magazines). And even if they will take this step some day in the future what's there to be mad about? Copyrights of those nude-pics can be bought from the court, said pics will get shut away and everything is peachy again in good, old Stockholm. If it will ever get this far I think Sofia will be a good princess. She seems very open-minded, self-confident and friendly to me. And what's most important: She makes CP happy.
Another topic that's making me scream everytime I read something or another about it is the question of CP 'lazy, crazy, funny bachelorlife'. Did it ever occur to you all that CP maybe want's to do something useful but doesn't get the OK from whomever (his parents, the court, the parliament, some silly law from whenever, etc) to do so? He wasn't to lazy to do military service, he went to university twice, he does design-things or photo-jobs every now and then, he did an internship at National Geographic and won a photo-competition in the U.S. years ago. He even does race and if his name wouldn't be Carl Philip Bernadotte but Fernando Alonso no-one would call this races a stupid, meaningless hobby. I'm sure he would really work, if everyone would really let him just work and live his own live. But think about the possibility if he really does so. He would never just be the average Carl or Philip. He would always stay a prince no matter what he does.
Everyone would blame him from running away from his royal commitments, everyone would blame him for living of tax money all his life, for getting a great education from said tax money and for giving nothing back. Everyone would blame him for being ignorant and thankless to those who made him to that what he would be right than. And he would still be followed around by paparazzi and be discussed in forums such as this because of his decisions that wouldn't be the right one, whatever those decisions would be. His royal upbringing is a double-edged sword. On the first look he's got everything, but on the second look he lives under a microscope and with the knowledge, that he can never make everyone of those, who pay for his lifestyle, truly happy.
Personally I wouldn't want to change with him and Sofia really has my due respect for putting herself under this microscope, too. Because she could avoid a life like that easily. She gains a lot if she holds on to CP as boyfriend, but she loses a lot, too. And that's not easy to handle for someone as young as her. CP had his whole life to learn to ignore negative arguments about his every moves, but Sofia (like every other significant other of every prince/princess) had to learn it the hard way. In my eyes, to live a life like this, has something to do with a lot of love and understanding. Because there is no way out, no matter what!!!
You all shouldn't forget he's not the heir (anymore). He's got more freedom than his big sister in every aspect of his life. So by all means, stop blaming him for doing something that's perfectly normal and natural for everyone of you: living a live, loving someone and making own decisions!
