Swedish crown princess Victoria is 30 years old

VICTORIA OF SWEDEN

Sweden, Norway and Denmark are all monarchies.

Each country has laws for who inherits the crown.

These laws have changed over the last fifty years, so now both sons and daughters can inherit the crown.


In Denmark the former King Frederik (who died in 1972) had three daughters and no sons, so his oldest daughter became the present Queen Margaret of Denmark.

http://www.kongehuset.dk/english

The present line of inheritance in Denmark:

Queen Margarethe, born 1940

Crown Prince Frederik, born 1968

Prince Christian born 2005


In Norway the present line of inheritance of the crown goes like this:

King Harald , born 1937

Crown Prince Haakon Magnus , born 1973

Princess Ingrid Alexandra, born 2004

A photo of these three on the Norwegian royal family's website

http://www.kongehuset.no/c26965/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27590

This is their English version

http://www.kongehuset.no/english/vis.html


In Sweden, the present line of inheritance

In Sweden the line of inheritance of crown is this:

King Carl XVI Gustav, born 1946

Crown Prince Victoria., born 1977 (Victoria is still single)

The Swedish royal family has a website with an English version

http://www.royalcourt.se/theroyalfamily.4.19fe5e61065eb9aeea80002278.html


Personally, I find monarchies an anachronism for the time we live in.

But having presidents is also not without problems.........