she is German, of bourgeois origin, and yet in Sweden very popular. On the popularity of the Royal family, it ranked in the past few decades, mostly in the first place – only now and again displaced by their oldest daughter, Victoria. In Germany, many know you as Silvia Sommerlath, the main character of the summer fairy tale of 1972. At that time the Olympic games were in Munich, Silvia was 28 years old and the crown Prince of Sweden just fallen in love with you. A long time ago: today, Sunday, the day before Christmas eve, celebrates Queen Silvia of Sweden, your 75. Birthday.
it is considered to be close to the people, unpretentious and principled. Many to write, it is her influence that her husband king Carl XVI Gustaf of Playboy with a penchant for fast cars, a respectable monarch. To son-in-law the love Affairs of her husband, she adamantly.
“she has saved the monarchy,” says a noble expert
Even the Swedish Royal house, with the exception of a few minor escapades – from the point of view of the gossip press of a tedium bordering earthiness and scandal freedom. “She has saved the monarchy”, the nobility expert and book author Roger Lundgren, who has spoken many times with the Queen, convinced. As the Swedish king Gustav VI Adolf in 1973, died and the 27-year-old Carl XVI Gustaf became king, there would have not believed many of Sweden to the future of the monarchy.
Silvia Renate Sommerlath came in at 23. December 1943, in Heidelberg, Germany as the daughter of a German and a Brazilian on the world. Walter Sommerlath had previously directed for many years a steel plant in São Paulo, then a weapons factory in Berlin was destroyed until 1943, when an allied attack. That he had been since 1934 a member of the Nazi party in São Paulo, was known only later. Because Silvia was already Queen.
The Royal Swedish family.Photo: Imago/IBL
The first time, the court was for the young German is not easy. “I came from a completely different environment, and there were things I had to learn, especially the language,” she says in an Interview with the “Kungliga Magasinet”. In addition, there was no woman at the court who could teach her, how she had to behave, because your mother-in-law had already died. The help you got from your sister-in-law Ingrid, who had married the Danish king Frederik IX. But also their own experience from Munich helped her. “Through her work with VIPs, they knew how to deal with high-ranking personalities,” says Lundgren.
spent her youth Silvia in Brazil. Only in 1957, she returned to Germany with her family. After graduation, she attended the interpreter’s Institute in Munich. She speaks English, six languages fluently, is proficient in addition, sign language and served as a Translator during the Olympic games, the VIPs. With binoculars, Carl Gustaf was on the brunette beauty’s attention – four years later, they married. Fortunately, her husband was already king, as crown Prince, he should have for his civil love on the throne without.
The Swedes admire your commitment to children
From the beginning, the Queen for the disadvantaged and miss involved needed to have children. But instead of facing themselves in the spotlight, draws attention rather to the close to her heart: children, the homeless, the abused, the suicidal have thoughts. Instead of a large Feast in their honor there was in the Oscar theatre, a Seminar in the foundations, for which the Queen uses. One of these is the World Childhood Foundation, set up by Silvia in 1999 to ensure that children are protected better from sexual abuse.
“respect for Sweden, the commitment of the Queen for children,” says Lundgren. “She has limits torn, she speaks about the Unspeakable. She’s doing something noble does not normally do.“ Numerous countries have changed due to the laws for the protection of children. They also took on the patronage of other charities.
19. In June 1976, the Couple married.Photo: Imago/Zuma/Keystone
to protect your need, includes your own children. Although crown Princess Victoria (41), and their younger siblings, Carl Philip (39), and Madeleine (36) are outgrown long ago, the age of the child, they are under close observation of their mother, the family’s fortunes hinged with the Protestant-Lutheran Strictness and conscientiousness. Meanwhile, the Queen is also dedicated to the tasks of a grandmother: “My mother said it, grandchildren are the Dessert of life.” She now has seven grandchildren, so that the Swedish court is one of the largest European Royal families.
your private life you shields consistently before the Public
Sweden’s tabloids usually goes nice with the Queen and her family. Only your constant concern for your appearance always makes for jokes – so you should have already undergone many years ago, a beauty OP. These kind of stories are rather harmless in comparison to the stories spread by the German Boulevard magazine is always happy for you. “What hurts us really, are these on the Desk the fingers gesogenen falsehoods,” complained the monarch once more to the “world on Sunday” – and defended himself in court. Your private life you shields consistently in front of the Public. Also your birthday will you celebrate, most likely only in a small circle. (AFP, dpa)
