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Prince Carl Philip & Princess Victoria
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- 1929-12-13 (Creation)
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The Times of Ceylon Press
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"He will lose the crown on New Year's day"
At the stroke of midnight on December 31st Sweden's six-month-old Crown Prince Carl Philip will lose his place as heir to the throne to his sister, the three-year-old Princess Victoria. The Swedish parliament has given final approval to a change in the constitution making the first-born instead of the first-born male—the heir presumptive to the crown.
The present king, Carl Gustaf, was his father's fifth and last child and only son. His father died in a aircraft accident, just one year after he was born. Remembering how close Sweden had come to being "kingless", the right-wing Moderate party began to push in 1976 for legislation entitling the first-born to ascend the throne.
The idea was given parliamentary legitimacy when a Social Democratic woman parliamentarian broke party ranks and gave the motion a one-voice edge, sending it to committee for detailed study. The idea appealed to the women's liberation movement as an appropriate symbolic move. It also seemed a good way to fend off the Social Democratic and Communists, who in principle do not approve of the perpetuation of the monarchy.
The only hitch came when a crown prince was born last spring and the kind admitted that he would prefer to see his son succeed him. However, parliament ignored dad's wishes and gave the constitutional change final approval.
At the stroke of midnight on December 31st Sweden's six-month-old Crown Prince Carl Philip will lose his place as heir to the throne to his sister, the three-year-old Princess Victoria. The Swedish parliament has given final approval to a change in the constitution making the first-born instead of the first-born male—the heir presumptive to the crown.
The present king, Carl Gustaf, was his father's fifth and last child and only son. His father died in a aircraft accident, just one year after he was born. Remembering how close Sweden had come to being "kingless", the right-wing Moderate party began to push in 1976 for legislation entitling the first-born to ascend the throne.
The idea was given parliamentary legitimacy when a Social Democratic woman parliamentarian broke party ranks and gave the motion a one-voice edge, sending it to committee for detailed study. The idea appealed to the women's liberation movement as an appropriate symbolic move. It also seemed a good way to fend off the Social Democratic and Communists, who in principle do not approve of the perpetuation of the monarchy.
The only hitch came when a crown prince was born last spring and the kind admitted that he would prefer to see his son succeed him. However, parliament ignored dad's wishes and gave the constitutional change final approval.
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