Crown Princess Victoria Biography

NAME: Princess Victoria of Sweden

OCCUPATION: Princess

BIRTH DATE: July 14, 1977 (Age: 34)

EDUCATION: Yale University

ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Vastergotland, born Victoria Ingrid Alice Desiree, on July 14, 1977, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the eldest child born to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Princess Victoria lives at Drottningholm Palace, outside Stockholm, with her family, which also includes her brother, Prince Carl Philip (b. 1979), and her sister, Princess Madeleine (b. 1982). Prior to Princess Victoria's birth, Swedish law dictated an agnatic succession, meaning that the throne would be inherited by the first male born to the King and Queen. However, this changed in 1979, when the Swedish parliament voted to secure succession rights for the first born, regardless of gender, and Victoria became heir.

It has been reported that the king was not fond of this new law and the Queen said in an interview, that it was a problem for them, because Carl Philip was already crown prince, and that it would have been better to enforce this law in the next generation. In 1981 the Royal family moved from the big palace in Stockholm to Drottningholm palace, a palace in a suburb of Stockholm. Drottningholm seemed more attractive to the royal couple to raise their children, because it´s in opposite to Stockholm palace surrounded of a huge park . In 1982 the Queen gave birth to a third child, a daughter called Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine.

Victoria, Carl Philip and Baby Madeleine.  

1982 was also the year in which Victoria started the Västerled parish pre-school/kindergarten, which she attended two years. In August 1984 Victoria had her first school day at the Smedslättsskolan in Bromma (suburb of Stockholm), accompanied by mum and dad the princess looked quite skeptically and searched for the hand of her mother.