Swedish Crown Princess Victoria Marries Her Ex-trainer

It is not a secret to anyone that Sweden has been celebrating royal marriages since 1976. And now this country is again penetrated by talks concerning Princess Victoria’s marriage. The royal wedding ceremony took place on Saturday in the Stockholm Cathedral. More than 1,200 relatives and friends were invited there to celebrate that grandiose event: Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling, who once was her personal trainer and with whom she had been dating for eight years, finally got married.

According to BBC reports, the couple met for the first time at a luxurious expensive private gym which belonged to 36-year old Daniel Westling. What concerns the ceremony, it has been calculated that is cost around $2 million. After the official church ceremony the newly-weds rode through beautifully decorated Stockholm in a carriage drawn by horses. Several tens of thousands citizens came to cheer the royal couple.

King Carl XVI Gustaf was happy to give his oldest 32-year-old daughter away. She is the first in a row to inherit the throne. It was mentioned in the press that 34 years have passed after the King’s personal wedding to Queen Silvia.

Right now Daniel Westling was granted the honourable title – Duke of Vastergotland.