Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland

Olof Daniel Westling Bernadotte, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland ( born September 15, 1973 in Örebro as Olof Daniel Westling ), is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and a former entrepreneur.

  • 3.1 Title
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Orders and honors

Childhood and education

Daniel Westling, was born in 1973 in the district Örebroer Almby as the son of an official Olle Gunnar Westling, head of the local social authority, and his wife Ewa Kristina, a postal worker. Westling was baptized in 1973 in Almby. He grew up with his older sister Anna in the 6000 -strong community Ockelbo, in the Swedish province of Gävleborg on.

Westling attended high school in Sandviken, where the otherwise rather average student excelled in sports and basketball, motocross, football and hockey were his hobbies. During the school holidays and after school Westling worked in a nursing home.

After graduating from college in 1991 graduated Westling, who did not pass the entrance exam for the university, his military service in Hälsingland Regiment in Gävle. After his military service he worked for a year in a home for disabled children. 1994 could be Westling in Stockholm down and attended to 1996 gymnastics and sports community college Lillsveds, where he trained for leisure educators and fitness consultant. Later he worked as a fitness trainer at the exclusive gym Master Training in Regeringsgatan whose partner he became in 1999. In 2006 he founded a fitness company balance, which employs about 100 employees and about 5,000 members has.

Since its birth Westling suffering from a disease that affects his kidney function. Therefore, it was transplanted a kidney of his father in May 2009.

Westling is particularly interested in golf and skiing.

Relationship with Crown Princess Victoria

HM Konung Carl XVI. Gustaf HM Drottning Silvia

  • HKH Kronprinsessan Victoria HKH Prins Daniel HKH Prinsessan Estelle
  • HKH Prinsessan Leonore

HKH Prinsessan Birgitta

In his sports club Westling learned in 2001, the four years younger Swedish Crown Princess Victoria know whose personal trainer he was. The fitness trainer and the princess frequently met in the studio, later privately. For about a year it was possible the couple to keep the relationship secret, before the Swedish tabloid Expressen on 30 May 2002 made ​​the affair public. The following year saw Westling and Victoria at a first public, joint appearance at the wedding of a friend. Despite the great media interest, which learned of the bourgeois life companion of the future Queen of Sweden, and the critical coverage remained the relationship. He has since acted as a future Prince Consort. Westling, due to its origin from the province and his profession by the Swedish press as " uneducated " and as " not befitting " lump sum was to be advised by a PR agency and changed his appearance in public. He had, according to Swedish media reports, many developments through to the royal representative 's sake, and learned English. Also Westling rose from the member of a firm on its executive board chairman and led three fitness center in downtown Stockholm. The company has now been converted into a public limited company, as it may as husband of the Swedish Crown Princess own shares, but no own company.

The couple, who joins include the joint passion for skiing lived alternately in Victorias apartment in a wing of Drottningholm Palace and in Westlings apartment in central Stockholm. The two were seen regularly at private events together, official appearances at the royal court allowed the untitled Westling not complete due to lack of engagement.

In Sweden, it has been speculated in a regular sequence over a wedding of the couple, for example, in October 2007, when the Press Department of the Swedish Foreign Ministry had stated in a draft budget for 2008 possible overspending under " preparations for a royal wedding ." Speaker of the Swedish Royal Palace and the Foreign Ministry denied then possible marriage plans of the couple. In December 2007, the Crown Princess nourished even rumors about a wedding in 2008.

In May 2008, Westling Crown Princess accompanied the first time at a celebration of another royal house and they appeared together at the birthday celebration of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.

Engagement and Marriage

The engagement with Crown Princess Victoria was announced on 24 February 2009. Since the wedding, on June 19, 2010 West Ling is called His Royal Highness Prince Daniel Duke of Västergötland. For the first time in the history of the Swedish monarchy was a commoner spouse of the heir to the throne. It is also the first time that a native Swede einheiratet into the main line of the House of Bernadotte. As part of the wedding celebration with Crown Princess Victoria Daniel was also awarded the Royal Seraphinenorden. Since their marriage in 2010, the two live in Haga Palace in Solna.

Children

His Born on 23 February 2012 daughter Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary, Duchess of Östergötland stands behind her mother Victoria of Sweden at number two on the Swedish throne.

Title, coat of arms, medals and honors

Title

  • Daniel Westling (September 15, 1973 - June 19, 2010 )
  • His Royal Highness Daniel, Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland ( since the wedding on 19 June 2010)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is quartered by a golden narrow Tatzenkreuz and wearing a heart-shaped shield, which is diagonally left divided by fir -section of gold and blue and the blue field a diagonally left golden hammer shows ( fir, and hammer are the emblem of Daniel's home community Ockelbo, located in an area with traditional forestry and processing iron, borrowed ).

In the first and fourth field in blue three ( 2:1) Asked golden crowns ( for the small national coat of arms of Sweden ). The second field is in blue on three silver diagonally left shaft bar a golden, langued and crowned lion on gold - reinforced ( Folkunger - Arms). In the third left diagonally divided field of black and gold lion as in the second only uncrowned, with mixed up colors, above the dividing line accompanied by ever a silver star ( Coat of arms of Västergötland ).

The escutcheon is placed a golden five-pointed crown prince, as they also Carl Philip and Madeleine in their coat of arms, with lace pearls and blue cap with gold crowns. Between the tips of each a black vertically positioned Wasagarbe.

The actual coat of arms is surrounded by the Collar of the Royal Seraphinenordens and corresponds to the crown, the shield shape ( in his case for men) and the heart sign, that of his wife.

Medals and honors

Trivia

About common ancestry of the Swedish-Finnish noble family Svinhufvud Daniel is used by Sweden with Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who was from 1931 to 1937 President of the Republic of Finland from Finland.

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