Now here’s a story of a boy done good.

Princess Victoria of Sweden
Not bad at all..

From Timesonline:

There was nothing but bleak news on the schedule in Sweden yesterday morning — the carmaker Saab flailing for life, a financial meltdown in nearby Baltic states — and most Stockholm journalists were glumly turning on their desktop anti-depression lamps for another day at the coalface.

Then came the flash from the Palace: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden is to marry her fitness trainer.

And all was right with the world.

 

Daniel and Victoria
Doing what they do best

 

A Royal wedding, it turns out, is the perfect antidote for recession blues. Outside the palace a crowd gathered and started to sing the national anthem. The Royal Court website crashed as Swedes tried to view the videoclip of King Carl Gustav XVI announcing the engagement. The tabloids set up online chat sites to allow Swedes to congratulate the couple.

“There is excitement on the streets,” said Pamela Andersson, the editor of Queen magazine, “this is going to be wonderful for Sweden.”

The wedding is set for the summer of 2010, and simply gives Sweden 18 months to contemplate the wedding dress of Victoria — the designer Anna Holtblad is already in pole position — the guest list (more than a thousand, including most of the crowned heads of Europe) and the general suitability of her consort, Daniel Westling, whom she met at a gym workout in 2002.

For the past year the court has been grooming Mr Westling, 35, who comes from a village; the hair has been cut short; he has been given designer spectacles and his baseball cap has disappeared. He now owns three gyms, which allows the press to refer to him in a slightly more dignified way as a businessman.

The makeover of Mr Westling, who can soon style himself Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, and move out of the servants’ quarters, was ordered by the King, who reportedly had doubts about his suitability. The reservations were not about Mr Westling being a commoner. The King married a commoner, the German Silvia Sommerlath, and the Scandivian countries have long since accepted that Royals should marry for love.

[read more here – it’s a great story]

It reminds me of the Seth Rotherham Upliftment Programme I run from time to time, where I take smoking-hot white trash chicks and teach them table manners and how to stand up properly. Some of them still walk amongst us; and I tell you, you wouldn’t be any the wiser.

Princess Victoria seems to have a similar programme that she runs. And she’s done well.

I mean, kyk hoe lyk hy nou!

Mmm mm – you clean up GOOD, boy!

Very smooth. Almost like Clark Kent.

[thanks ryan]