Small christmas eve fills the Swedish queen Silvia the entire 75 years. Celebration is synonymous with being obviously marked on the royal show on the big day, but already now the swedes started the selection.
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In connection with the anniversary has the Swedish channel SVT made a great interview with the queen, where the Swedish journalist Claes Elfsberg have asked the questions. He interviewed also Silvia when she married king Carl Gustaf (72) 42 years ago.
Together reminisce back to the days when the press was very curious about the woman that something surprising had hijacked the heart of Sweden’s king.
The two had in fact gone under the radar for most, although speculations that the king had met his future wife, already was in the air.
Queen Silvia claims it’s haunted at the castle Tried to hide the relationship
In the interview, reveals the Swedish royal authority that it be deleted was not easy to hide the relationship she had to the king.
once I was at the airport in Hamburg. I had a question I needed to answer, and then they answered with: “Miss Sommerlath” (queen Silvias former surname, journ.anm.), even if I had the wig on me. Then I noticed that it really did not help so much to hide the relationship, she tells to the channel, courtesy of the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
MARRIED for 42 YEARS: King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia met for the very first time in 1972. They married four years later. Photo: NTB Scanpix Show more
According to the newspaper shows Silvia then was one of the most famous photographs taken by the Swedish royal couple, to the journalist Claes Elfsberg.
Was caught
here familiar enough many again. In each case the older generation. It is the famous picture that was taken on Öland. I had been in Sweden quite often, and was never really discovered. But then suddenly, in the porschen, ” says the queen.
the Photo queen Silvia refers to, is the very first picture taken of the royal couple. The queen, originally from Germany, had come on a visit to the Swedish royal family summer home, when a photographer took them on peach.
MUCH DISCUSSED: This is the much-talked porschen to Carl Gustaf, where Silvia was a passenger. Photo: NTB Scanpix Show more
the Moment with the black porschen to Carl Gustaf the king has even gone up as one of his best memories from the famous summer resort.
– Later, it turned out that she came to be my wife and Sweden’s queen, told the king, during a speech in 2016, according to Swedish Damtidning.
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WEDDING: Queen Silvia and king Carl Gustaf has held together for more than 42 years. Here they are at the wedding of his son, prince Carl Phillip, in 2015. Photo: NTB Scanpix Show more Will not answer
On the question of why the queen wanted to be discreet with the relationship she had with the Swedish king, she says something elusive.
– There were many who had seen me, it was not any secret on the way, but I would like to keep for myself (…) One does what one can. I understood that it would be difficult to meet if I failed to be discreet, ” she says, according to Expressen.
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It was during the olympic sommerlekene in Munich in 1972, it is said that Silvia met Carl Gustaf for the very first time. At the time was her name Silvia Renate Sommerlath, and was involved in the organization of the olympic games.
Since the time met the duo together in the hide, before they are four years later became engaged to.
In 1976 they got married in stockholm cathedral in Stockholm. At the time was Carl Gustaf already been the king. A year later they got their first children together, crown princess Victoria (41). Two years later they got their son prince Carl Philip (39), and in 1982 they could wants, princess Madeleine (36) welcome to the world.
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