After Duchess Kate gave birth to Princess Charlotte, I said that the royal gossip was probably going to slow down significantly this summer. What I should have said was that the British royal gossip was going to be pretty quiet, specifically gossip about the Cambridges. But the Swedish royal gossip is going to be pretty epic in the coming months, so this is going to serve as a preview of coming (and ongoing) scandals.

Sweden’s Prince Carl Philip has always been pretty hot. Arguably, he’s one of the hottest and most eligible princes in the world. I think there might also be a “pretty but dumb” issue with Carl Philip. Yes, he’s hot, but he has kind of awful taste in women and he doesn’t seem to get that some women are using him. He’s dated several lingerie models, reality show famewhores and the like, and his current fiancée is keeping with that theme. Her name is Sofia Hellqvist. She was once named Slitz of the Year by a Swedish magazine that is like the equivalent of FHM or Maxim. Like, almost p0rn – they get ladies all greased up and in bikinis. While there’s nothing wrong with a lady doing whatever she wants to do with her body, there are issues with a “Slitz of the Year” with an extremely shady past marrying into the Swedish royal family. It would be like Prince Harry marrying Courtney Stodden – there would be ISSUES. You can read about some of Sofia’s past here.

Obviously, some of those issues have caused some rumors in and around the Swedish royal family. Many say that Queen Silvia and King Carl Gustaf are appalled by Carl Philip’s choice. Carl Philip’s sisters don’t seem especially happy for him either. What’s worse is that the royal family’s PR people have been trying to clean up Sofia’s image and sketchball history, but the more they try to clean it up, the more attention they end up drawing to just what an inappropriate choice Carl Philip has made. Allegedly, Sofia has even been receiving “princess lessons” a la Duchess Kate.

The big royal wedding is supposed to go down on June 13th, and I’m absolutely positive the whole thing is going to be an awkward mess. Princess Madeleine probably won’t even go, using the excuse that she’s due to give birth around then. Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel will probably have to go, but neither of them has issued a statement of support for their new sister-in-law. I can’t wait for all the wedding photos.

This was just announced over the weekend too – upon her marriage, Sofia is going to become a princess. Oh, good. Her official title will be HRH Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland. Duchess Kate is probably kicking herself right now – Kate’s past is a lot less shady and all Kate got was a duchess title. Sofia gets a princess AND a duchess title. All hail Princess Sofia.

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