SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014
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How to marry a princess Howard Croner of Estherville gave us the following information which he received in June 2010 from a friend, the late Gene Person of Fort Dodge. It seems that Person’s cousin, Daniel Westling, a Swedish commoner, married the princess of Sweden, Here’s what Person had to say about it: I was shocked when I received this synopsis in the mail from my cousin in Sweden. Dan had been going with this princess for about five years. The king was against it but his daughter won out. He is going to step down from the throne and turn it over to his daughter and Prince Dan Westling. It took six years to make a prince out of him but the Princess Victoria
worked hard at it and even her father agreed she done a good job. Love can come out of a manure pile. —Gene Person BY NICK MEO IN OCKELBO, SWEDEN, JUNE 5, 2010
When the clock strikes midnight in the gilded ballroom of Stockholm’s Royal Palace on June 19, a prince will lead his princess in the first waltz of the evening, as an audience of Europe’s royalty looks on approvingly. The glamorous midnight ball will be the final event of a historic day, and a moment to savor for His Royal Highness Prince Daniel — a former fitness instructor called Daniel Westling from a village in the forests of central Sweden. In his extraordinary
courtship with Crown Prince Victoria, he has received the modern equivalent of a kiss that turns the frog into a prince — careful grooming by courtiers, language tutors and a public relations agency. Now, eight years later, he has been transformed into a sophisticated, modern young royal. The dream romance will now culminate in a fairy tale royal wedding. Europe’s biggest royal event since the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. “Their relationship came as a big surprise,” said Johan T. Lindwall, the journalist who broke the story. “Daniel came from a totally different background to
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