Princess Madeleine of Sweden shared
her first Instagram post of 2022 on Sunday to mark a special occasion.
The royal mum-of-three, 39, uploaded a photo of her and Christopher
O’Neill’s eldest child, Princess Leonore, to celebrate her eighth birthday.
The image was a close-up of the young princess, wearing a white dress
and beaming at the camera.
The proud mum Madeleine wrote in the caption: “Happy Birthday to
our strong and beautiful Leonore!”
Princess Madeleine, Christopher and their family have resided in Florida
since August 2018, but they have previously lived in New York, Stockholm and
London.
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Princess Madeleine shared a new photo of Princess Leonore
Princess Leonore Lilian Maria, Duchess of Gotland, was born at Weill
Cornell Medical Center in New York on 20 February 2014. She also has two
younger siblings, Prince Nicolas, six, and three-year-old Princess Adrienne.
Princess Madeleine revealed in an interview with Swedish magazine Mama in
2019 that she had been having contractions during her brother, Prince Carl Philip‘s wedding to Sofia Hellqvist in June 2015. Her son Nicolas was born
two days after the ceremony.
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Madeleine and her family spent Christmas in Stockholm
Madeleine, who is the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, married British-born American financier
Christopher O’Neill in Stockholm in June 2013.
In 2019, the king made some changes to the royal house,
announcing that the children of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia, and the
children of Princess Madeleine and Christopher will no longer be members of the
royal house.
This meant that Carl Philip’s sons, Prince Alexander, Prince Gabriel,
and Prince Julian, as well as Princess Madeleine’s children, Princess Leonore,
Prince Nicolas and Princess Adrienne, lost their style of Royal Highness and in the future will not be expected to perform duties incumbent on the head of state.
Madeleine and her family returned to Sweden for the holidays, where
they received the Christmas trees at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.
