Lee-Z
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This thread is a bit like a yo-yo... back and forth, back and forth
You really have a point here !Why should Carl Phillip be any different from Daddy Carl? Didn't the King visit strip clubs while married to Queen Silvia? I don't see what the big deal is. If the two daughters were allowed to marry commoners,why can't Carl Phillip marry the woman who makes him happy?
Yawn, of course it´s always jealousy. We women are so vapid, am I right?
The press are generally much nicer to men than they are to woman
Commodified, hmm, thanks, it's my new word for the week and it is so wonderfully descriptive. A perfect fit for the subject at hand. Yes, Maddie would have had a snowball's show in hell of publicly dating and living with a man with the same resume as Sofia.Yup. Plus men don't have their sexuality commodified in the same way to begin with.
The press are generally much nicer to men than they are to woman
Prince Carl Philip and his Sofia go StafettVasan today
That IS exactly what I meant in the previous postWhy on earth would they want to interview him? What's next? The lady of the bakershop where she buys her bread? The mechanic who repaired her car? Her butcher? Why don't they research something more useful, her company's finances for example (something about which Daniel got grilled, even though he did NOT use his royal connections for promotion).
And secondly: is he still her personal trainer after this? I can't imagine any fiancee-to-be would be allowed to have blabbering people around him/her. Only some designers are allowed to blabber once in a while, perhaps for a discount (and always AFTER a wedding).
And on a third note: how much further do they want to dumb down the Swedish monarchy?
I'm not understanding this idea that the media is treating Sofia different than Daniel or Chris. I'm not seeing any evidence that they are treating her special than the others.
The media is obviously looking for signs that would point to an engagement between Carl Philip & Sofia. Also, they are trying to fill their newspaper pages too.
Sofia Hellqvist partnered with Young Cancer
Almost all the articles about Sofia have been very positive since from the beginning, although she has a very shady past, she has had no proper job and she has been very energetic in searching for fame and publicity. Daniel, Emma and Jonas had all faultless pasts and they were working in full-time jobs, they acted discreetly and they were not giving interviews. The media described Daniel for being dumb, dull and dowdy although he had had his own company already five years before he started dating with Victoria. Daniel gave a couple of interviews about his gyms and work to economy newspapers. He demanded that no questions were made about Victoria and he demanded to read the interviews before they were put to the newspaper. The media didn't write every month about a possible engagement between Emma and Carl Philip like it writes about Sofia. The media didn't praise in every article how nice Daniel, Emma and Jonas were.
The way the media and the king treats Sofia is totally different how they treated Daniel, Emma and Jonas. As for the media, it has something to do with that the time have changed. The press and young people idolize TV-reality show stars like Sofia. Chris has also got a lot of very negative press of which he self caused some by raising his middle finger towards the photographers.
Daniel's and Chris' businesses have been searched thoroughly. The press isn't interested in Sofia's businesses and how they started Project Playground.
The king has made everything possible by treating Sofia totally different than Daniel, Emma and Jonas. Every praising article about Sofia where she speaks about Carl Philip or other members of the royal family, is a slap on the faces of Daniel, Emma and Jonas. It looks like the king didn't value the discreet behaviour and dignity of Daniel, Emma and Jonas very high at all.
I think that the only press that came down hard on her was the foreign press. The Spanish language press refers to her as ex-stripper or ex-pornstar, which she isn't. But other than that, I can not recall any negative articles TBH. Bunte and the Swedish tabloids are doing the exact opposite, presenting her as Sweden's awnser to mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Isn't it strange that pics of Sofia at the Te Deum were not published in the royal family site? Above all if and engagement is expected soon...
I might recall wrong but when she attended the Te Deum for Estelle the photos of her were published... Maybe I'm mistaken