STOCKHOLM (AP) – The only son of Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia has married his fiancee in a lavish ceremony in Stockholm.
Prince Carl Philip and the former reality starlet and model Sofia Hellqvist, 30, tied the knot Saturday at the Royal Palace chapel before five European queens, a Japanese princess and dozens of other blue-blooded guests. The couple got engaged in June 2014.
Carl Philip, 36, is third in line to the throne behind his elder sister, Crown Princess Victoria, and her 3-year-old daughter, Princess Estelle.
Hellqvist, who has also worked as a yoga instructor, gets the title Duchess of Varmland.
The newlyweds are set to travel in a ceremonial procession through the streets Stockholm by horse and carriage.