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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing little previews of the upcoming wedding between Sweden’s Prince Carl Philip and his soon-to-be bride, Sofia Hellqvist. The general consensus among royal watchers is that Sofia is not really princess material – she’s a reality show famewhore and softcore p0rn model – and that this wedding is probably going to be a lot of fun to watch because a few of Carl Philip’s family members don’t seem especially jazzed about the union. To battle those kinds of perceptions, People Magazine ran a soft-focus piece about the Scandalous Sofia and how Carl Philip has tamed the wild girl or something. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Margareta Gotthardsson, royals reporter at Svensk Damtidning, tells People: “From the beginning, there was a struggle for Sofia to be accepted… She has told the press that she and the prince tried to fall out of love with each other since they knew that it would be a struggle for them when her background was revealed.”

Carl Philip on whether his sisters disliked Sofia: “Absolutely not, not at all. My parents and my sisters were curious about her, open, and welcomed her with a big hug.”

Carl Philip on the media’s treatment of Sofia: “She was hung out to dry in a bullying type of way.”

Sofia on how the royal family treated her: “I felt welcome from day one and nothing else… A lot has been written over the years, not only following our engagement. For me it’s pretty boring, it happened 10 years ago and I’ve moved on with my life. But no regrets. Experience shapes a person.”

Gotthardsson says perception about Sofia changed after the engagement: “Now everyone has changed their minds about her. She is very lovely, charming and smart. The Swedish people have taken her to their heart.”

Royal reporter Johanna Lejon says the wedding will be better than Will & Kate’s: “The Swedes love royal weddings! The whole country is in a party mood. It will be a very emotional and touching wedding, just like William and Kate’s. But Carl Philip and Sofia’s wedding will be more open and not so private as Kate and William’s was. For example, SVT [a Swedish TV network] will air most of the dinner and the party after the wedding.”

[From People]

People Magazine also quotes that royal reporter Margareta Gotthardsson as saying that Crown Princess Victoria has always been supportive of Sofia because “Victoria had to fight for the approval of marrying Daniel, who was a luxury gym owner, it was easier for Prince Carl Philip to get approval from their parents to wed Sofia. Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel have always supported Sofia and Carl Philip during their relationship.” See, I think that would be a reason why Victoria would have mixed feelings about Sofia generally speaking – Victoria and Daniel had to wait years and years for her parents to accept him, and Daniel was and is a lovely, scandal-free, upstanding dude without a whiff of famewhore. And after all of the work Victoria and Daniel had to do, then Sofia just waltzes in wearing a bikini with a snake wrapped around her privates and suddenly it’s the same thing?

But yes, I bet the royal family has accepted that Sofia will be marrying Carl Philip and that’s the end of that. The only good thing that will come of it is that party-girl Sofia will make her sister-in-law Victoria look that much better by comparison.

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