Daniel of Sweden
Olof Daniel Westling Bernadotte, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Vastergotland (* 15. September 1973 in Örebro as Olof Daniel Westling ), is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and former entrepreneur .
childhood and education
Daniel Westling was born in 1973 in the Almby district of Örebro, the son of civil servant Olle Gunnar Westling, head of the communal social welfare office, and his wife Ewa Kristina, a postal worker. Westling was baptized in Almby in 1973. He grew up with his older sister Anna in the 6,000-strong community of Ockelbo , in the Swedish province of Gävleborgs län .
Westling attended high school in Sandviken , where the otherwise average student excelled in sports and his hobbies were basketball, motocross , football and ice hockey. During the school holidays and after graduating from high school, Westling worked in a nursing home .
After graduating from high school in 1991, Westling, who failed the university entrance examination, completed his military service in the Hälsinge regiment in Gävle . After his military service, he worked in a home for disabled children for a year. In 1994 Westling settled in Stockholm and attended the Lillsveds Gymnastics and Sports College until 1996 , where he trained as a leisure teacher and fitness advisor . He later worked as a fitness trainer in the exclusive Master Training gym in Regeringsgatan, of which he became a partner in 1999. In 2006 he founded the fitness company Balance , which employs around 100 people and has around 5000 members.
Westling has had a disease that has affected his kidney function since he was born . Therefore, in May 2009, he received a kidney transplant from his father.
Westling is particularly interested in golf and skiing .
Relationship with Crown Princess Victoria
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In 2001 Westling met the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria , four years his junior, in his sports club and became her personal trainer . The fitness trainer and the princess often met in the studio, later also privately. The couple managed to keep the relationship a secret for about a year before the Swedish tabloid Expressen made the liaison public on May 30, 2002 . The following year Westling and Victoria were seen making their first public appearance together at a friend's wedding. Despite the great media interest that the civil partner of the future Queen of Sweden experienced and the critical coverage, the relationship continued. He has since been traded as the future Prince Consort . Westling, which the Swedish press generalized as "uneducated" and "not befitting" because of his provincial origins and his profession, sought advice from a PR agency and changed his appearance in public. According to Swedish media reports, he had to go through numerous further training courses for the sake of royal representation and learned English intensively . Westling also rose from a partner in his company to its CEO and ran three fitness centers in downtown Stockholm. In the run-up to the engagement, he withdrew from the management and the supervisory board, as this was not considered appropriate for a member of the royal family. However, he still holds shares in the company.
The couple, who share a common passion for skiing, lived alternately in Victoria's apartment in a wing of Drottningholm Palace and in Westling's apartment in central Stockholm. The two were regularly seen together at private occasions, and the untitled Westling was not allowed to make official appearances at the royal court due to the lack of engagement.
In Sweden there has been regular speculation about the couple's wedding, for example in October 2007 when the press department of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs listed possible additional expenses under the heading “Preparations for a royal wedding” in a budget for 2008 . Spokesmen for the Swedish Royal Palace and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs then denied the couple's possible marriage plans. In December 2007, the Crown Princess herself fueled rumors of a possible wedding in 2008.
In May 2008, Westling accompanied the Crown Princess for the first time to a celebration of another royal family and they appeared together at the birthday party of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark .
Engagement and marriage
The engagement to Crown Princess Victoria was announced on February 24, 2009. Since the wedding on June 19, 2010, Westling has been called HRH Prince Daniel Duke of Västergötland . For the first time in the recent history of the Swedish monarchy, a civil spouse of the heir to the throne became . It is also the first time that a native Swede has married into the main line of the Bernadotte family. As part of the wedding celebration with Crown Princess Victoria, Daniel was also awarded the Royal Order of Seraphine . Since their wedding in 2010, the two have lived at Haga Castle in Solna.
children
His daughter Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary , Duchess of Östergötland, born on February 23, 2012, is second in line to the Swedish throne behind her mother Victoria of Sweden . On March 2, 2016, his second child, a son named Oscar Carl Olof , was born, who takes third place in the line of succession.
Titles, coats of arms, medals and honors
title
- Daniel Westling (September 15, 1973 - June 19, 2010)
- HRH Daniel, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland (since the wedding on June 19, 2010)
- ( Swedish : Hans Kunglig Höghet Daniel, Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Västergötland )
coat of arms
The coat of arms is quartered by a narrow golden paw cross and has a heart shield , which is divided diagonally on the left by a fir cut of gold and blue and shows a diagonally left golden hammer in the blue field (fir cut and hammer are the coat of arms of Daniel's home community Ockelbo , located in an area with traditional forestry and iron processing, borrowed).
In the first and fourth fields in blue three (2: 1) set golden crowns (for the small imperial coat of arms of Sweden ). In the second field is in blue on three silver obliquely left wave beams a golden rotgezungter and -bewehrter gold crowned lion on ( Folkunger Coat of Arms). In the third field, divided diagonally to the left, in black and gold, a lion, as in the second, only uncrowned, with mixed-up colors , each accompanied by a silver star (coat of arms of Västergötland) above the dividing line.
On the shield rests a golden five-pointed prince's crown , as also used by Carl Philip and Madeleine in their coats of arms, with lace pearls and a blue cap with gold crowns. Between the tips there is a vertical black wasa color .
The actual coat of arms is enclosed by the collar of the Royal Seraphine Order and, apart from the crown, the shield shape (in his case the one for men) and the heart shield corresponds to that of his wife.
Orders and honors
| year | Country | Orders / decorations |
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| 2010 |
 Sweden
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Royal Order of Seraphines |
| 2011 |
 Estonia
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Order of the Marienland Cross 1st class |
| 2012 |
 Finland
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Grand Cross of the Finnish Order of the White Rose |
Trivia
Through common descent from the Swedish-Finnish noble family Svinhufvud , Daniel von Sweden is related to Pehr Evind Svinhufvud , who was President of the Republic of Finland from 1931 to 1937 .
literature
- Andreas Utterström: Daniel & Victoria . Big bok, Stockholm 2007, ISBN 978-91-85499-17-5 . (Swedish)
Web links
- Official biography at royalcourt.se (English)
- Vem är Daniel Westling? - Portrait of Annika Engström at svd.se, February 24, 2009 (Swedish)
- Brief portrait of Daniel Westlings at vanityfair.de
- Interview with Daniel Westling at metro.se, June 21, 2006 (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Swedish royal family
- ↑ See video Victoria and Daniel - The Prince from Ockelbo in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on October 3, 2009. (offline), (Melchior, Julia; Dehnhardt, Sebastian; film from the ZDF series Die Königskinder ; first broadcast: October 3 2009), 6:00 min ff.
- ↑ See Sådan är kronprinsessans man at svd.se (December 27, 2003).
- ↑ See Melchior, Julia; Dehnhardt, Sebastian: Victoria and Daniel - The Prince from Ockelbo (film from the ZDF series Die Königskinder ; first broadcast: October 3, 2009), 13:20 min.
- ↑ See New Kidney for Princess Victoria's Fiancee at Spiegel Online , May 28, 2009.
- ↑ Cf. Bomsdorf, Clemens: A perfectly normal princess turns 30 . In: Welt am Sonntag, July 15, 2007, p. 14.
- ↑ a b Cf. The Born Queen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 14, 2007, p. 11.
- ↑ See Versendaal, Dirk van: Vicky and the strong man . In: Stern, September 27, 2006, p. 208.
- ↑ See Victoria is drawn to the altar? . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, October 23, 2007, p. 28.
- ↑ Tvingas att sluta jobba . In: Aftonbladet, November 14, 2009 (Swedish)
- ↑ Cf. Raagaard, Ingrid: VICTORIA wants beautiful Daniel! . In: Bunte, October 4, 2007, p. 38.
- ↑ See new speculations about the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria , Agence France-Presse, Stockholm, October 19, 2007.
- ↑ Cf. Raagaard, Ingrid: Princess Victoria poses a riddle to her country . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, December 19, 2007.
- ↑ Victoria and beau Daniel take center stage at Danish royal do, HELLO, June 2, 2008
- ^ Spiegel, February 24, 2009
- ↑ Crown Princess Victoria engaged - "I feel safe with Daniel by my side" - Faz, February 24, 2009
- ↑ See Melchior, Julia; Dehnhardt, Sebastian: Victoria and Daniel - The Prince from Ockelbo (film from the ZDF series Die Königskinder ; first broadcast: October 3, 2009), 4:50 min ff.
- ↑ Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel have had a son
- ↑ www.president.ee Information page of the Estonian President
- ^ Blog "Scandinavian Royals" , photo Daniel and Carl-Philipp with the medal
- ↑ Commoner marrying Swedish crown princess 'has aristocratic roots' . The Daily Telegraph . June 9, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Daniel of Sweden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westling Bernadotte, Olof Daniel; Westling, Olof Daniel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish businessman and husband of Victoria of Sweden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th September 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Örebro |