Princess Madeleine, the 23-year-old daughter of Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf XVI and Queen Silvia, was recently in Hollywood visiting some Swedish friends and we’re told did some major shopping on Rodeo Drive and at Neiman Marcus where she bought some Oscar de la Renta sweaters and dresses and at Hermes where she picked up some blets and bags, and at Chanel where she purchased some evening wear.
The princess has dabbled in design, fashion and advertising and it is not surprising she used her trip to check out our wonderful Beverly Hills fashion emporia. Swedish and European women, especially those in their 20s, take their fashion cues from Princess Madeleine and he sister, the 28-year-old Princess Victoria.
Her Swedish hosts reportedly took her to Disneyland and to some of Hollywood’s hot spots such as Koi, where she is said to have sat next to Paris Hilton, Kimberly Stewart and Lindsay Lohan, and ordered he restaurant’s baked crab rolls and the albacore tuna with onion. After dinner they say she checked out the Tropicana Bar, the Hollywood Roosevelt hot spot that she somehow managed to hear about in Stockholm; she was anxious to see what all the fuss was about. We were unable to get her reaction to the XXXX-designed nightspot.