Can a royal who grew up third in line to the throne marry a rich American and move over there? Swedes have been here before: Princess Madeleine, sister to the Crown Princess, did this a few years ago. She now lives in Florida, and her example could be instructive to Prince Harry and Meghan.
Like Harry, she first tried love at home, but it didn’t work out: her 2009 engagement to Jonas Bergström, a lawyer, was broken off after rumours of him cheating on her. The news rocked Sweden and when she moved to New York shortly after, it was seen to be quite understandable.
And then she just stayed there. She worked for a charity her mother, Queen Silvia, had set up, fell in love with American-British financier Chris O’Neill and even gave birth to her daughter overseas (although a lot of people remarked that it is strange indeed that a princess can be born in a country without kings and queens).
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