It’s usually exciting to see a royal wedding, but the excitement is dulled this time around.
Sweden’s Prince Carl-Philip marries next week, but the woman he is marrying has, to put it politely, a dubious reputation. Sweden stands to gain a princess, but is she right for the job with her background?
Sofia Hellqvist, the prince’s fiancée, is a former soft-porn model. The media gleefully refers to it as “glamour” modeling, but we’re all adults here. We get it. No need to sugar-coat it. Sofia then topped off this “career” with a spell in reality television. All she needed to make her resume complete was a sex tape a la Kim Kardashian. So you can see why Sofia’s imminent marriage to Prince Carl-Philip is depressing. Her fairly recent past sucks the romance out of the whole wedding. At least he’s not next in line to the throne. We can be grateful for that much, at least.
Despite all of this, there are many people who still want to give Sofia a chance. Often mentioned in the debate over Sofia’s suitability is the troubled past of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, who was caught up in the underground drug scene in her younger days. She ended up as a single mother struggling to make ends meet. When she met Crown Prince Haakon and he proposed, everything changed for her. Haakon and Mette-Marit went before the press, where she tearfully expressed embarrassment about her past. It was a tough life of questionable choices and people, but she seemed genuinely sorry about it. Importantly, it was out of the limelight. Mette-Marit did not seek to profit from her lifestyle and tout it as appropriate. Sofia, however, seems to have a cavalier attitude over her past choices. She claims that she wouldn’t do anything like it now, but that goes without saying. You don’t see a princess representing her nation in a lad’s magazine each month.
I’m glad if Prince Carl-Philip and Sofia truly love each other, but the prospect of Sofia representing Sweden as a royal princess is depressing. It lowers the bar on what a princess and a professional woman should be. Would you take the U.S. ambassador seriously if they had already spent the majority of their career prancing half-naked?
No doubt the wedding is still on no matter what anyone thinks, so it’s best to try and look on the bright side. It’s nice to see that Sofia is willing to style herself like a grown woman with some decency. She cut that far-too-long black hair that was neither suited to her skin tone nor her face shape. It’s now shorter, softer, and lighter. Her hats are cute. Her clothes are elegant, and most importantly, they’re on.
At least Carl-Philip isn’t next in line for the throne. Sweden gets to avoid having to explain to the world why their queen’s former title was “Miss Slitz”. The prospect of the wedding is depressing, but at least we can be thankful for small miracles.
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