I am also on the fence about Sofia. Certainly she will never be able to erase the past. A lot depends on the next year with Victoria and Daniel and the new baby. Having a healthy heir to the throne relieves much of the burden on Carl Philip and frees up his choices to include someone with a past that was....very well documented, shall we say.
At some point, though, marrying not just commoners but those with a "common" past doesn't preserve a monarchy or royalty; it detracts from it. Standards can relax without being pitched overboard completely. I'll be curious as to how Sofia comports herself point-forward.
I think it was premature for the blogger to openly say "the next princess" (rough translation.) I think the couple has a ways to go before that hurdle is cleared.
Yeah, I am going to need you to get out of my head. That to me is the main point (other than what appears to be Sofia's desire for fame). Before I go on, I must say that everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion and a variety of different opinions makes a discussion board all that more interesting.
But for the life of me, I can't see why some people don't see the basic point for those of us who have expressed reservations about this relationship (myself included). Its not that we are all haters, that we don't go for a nice love story, and that we don't want the Cinderella ending for Carl Phillip (rich boy/girl who is a princess and/or princess marries the girl next door), and that we don't believe in fairy tales and sugar and spice and everything nice and all that.
Its the commonness of it all. And before anyone says I am being a snob....I will confess you are right. I am being a snob who totally believes in a democracy, and that everyone is equal regardless of your race, sex, sexual orientation, all of it. But I also (despite the fact that I am an American) believe in the constitutional monarchy. I guess as long as it someone else's it doesn't matter.
That's why I agree with (and bolded) NotAPretender's post and I will repost it again:
At some point, though, marrying not just commoners but those with a "common" past doesn't preserve a monarchy or royalty; it detracts from it. Standards can relax without being pitched overboard completely.
I enjoy the Swedish Royal Family a bit too much to see it go away because CP and Sofia are in love, and potentially want to marry and have kids. And I disagree with the repeated sentiment that everyone should just deal with it
. If they do proceed to the next step, as non Swedish citizen, I shall certainly have to deal with it. But if as NaP stated, what if the Swedish people instead of just dealing with it decide that a Princess with a common past doesn't deserve to be royalty, and its better to scrap the whole thing altogether.
I hope that some happy balance is reached, that all parties involved are happy and loved (really I have nothing personal against Sofia other than she made some not so good life choices), and that the history and tradition of the Swedish Royal Family are bigger than CP and Sofia.
Any chance that Emma P comes back on the scene? I really liked her.
Didn't we all. Or rather, we really didn't know enough information about her to dislike or and/or anything that we did know certainly wasn't on par for Sofia's "past."