瑞典玛德琳公主周六将举行大婚

 

The 30-year-old has returned to the Swedish capital from New York, where she met Mr O'Neill two years ago.

 

The ceremony is not expected to be as lavish¹（浪费的） as the wedding of her sister, Crown Princess Victoria, in 2010.

 

Sweden's royal family, particularly Princess Victoria, enjoys wide support among members of the public.

 

Princess Madeleine, also known as the Duchess of Halsingland and Gastrikland, met Mr O'Neill in New York while she was working for the non-profit organisation², World Childhood Foundation.

 

The youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia has been keeping a low profile since moving to the US in 2010 after her engagement to a Swedish lawyer came to an abrupt³ end. 

 

She has also had a complicated relationship with the Swedish press, who dubbed⁴ her the "party princess" when she was spotted⁵ frequenting high-end Stockholm clubs in her early twenties.

 

The couple will tie the knot in Stockholm's Royal Chapel⁶ before a horse and carriage procession through the medieval old town of Gamla Stan.

 

Despite some 600 guests, the wedding is expected to be more low-key than her sister's ceremony in 2010, when the whole of the Swedish capital was transformed for the celebrations.

 

"It won't be anything like (Crown Princess) Victoria's wedding. Firstly, because Madeleine is not a successor to the throne," Roger Lundgren, the editor of a Swedish magazine about royalty⁷ told Associated Press news agency.

 

"Secondly⁸, this is a private wedding -- the king is paying for it himself," he adds.

 

The royal guest list is said to include the UK's Earl and Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward and Sophie, Princess Takamado of Japan and princes and princesses from Norway, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg and Monaco. 

 

The Royal Court said on Friday that Madeleine's wedding dress was made by Italian designer Valentino Garavani.

 

Her fiancé, who enjoys dual⁹ British-American citizenship¹⁰, has declined a royal rank in Sweden which would have required him to become a Swedish citizen.

 

The couple are expected to return to the US and continue working after the wedding.

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