Big news in Sweden today: Princess Victoria is going to marry a commoner! She and her gym-owner boyfriend Daniel Westling got formally engaged in a ceremony today in Stockholm. Westling had been shacking up with the princess in Drottningholms castle for a couple of years, and cynics say the wedding is more or less engineered to provide a little cheer and good publicity for Sweden to distract people from the recession. Not that Swedes are feeling all that woeful anyway, compared to Americans. But a royal wedding is always good fun and there hasn't been one in Sweden since Silvia and Gustav married in the seventies.
In other news, I snapped a photo today of Bonnier Chairman Carl-Johan Bonnier sitting with my friend Sofia at her desk. This is such a great example of how gorgeously unhierarchical Sweden is. This guy is the big boss of an international media company and he's sitting knee-to-knee with a freelance designer, at her desk, helping her with a project. What a country! Can you imagine Si Newhouse doing that?? He's like Oz in sweatpants. I'm pretty sure only Anna Wintour gets to speak to him directly—normal folk would need to speak to his underling's underling, after making an appointment three months in advance.
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