Yesterday there was a lot of hooplah in Sweden, because our Crown Princess Victoria got married.

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Her husband, formerly Daniel Westling, now Daniel, prince of the house of Bernadotte of Sweden, is a gym owner born in the small Swedish town of Ockelbo. He met his future wife when she needed to build her strength after recovering from anorexia nervosa:

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This wreck of a woman is Victoria in 1998. Fortunately, she recovered from her anorexia rather quickly. Now 33, she looks very healthy.

Eight years ago, when she was well but not very strong, she came to Daniel's gym, because it had been recommended to her. The rest is history. This is what CNN reported from their wedding:

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Here in Sweden, we have of course been regaled with all kinds of stories even remotely related to Victoria and Daniel. I think my favorite is the one where Daniel first brought Victoria home to meet his parents in their home in little Ockelbo. Daniel had told his parents that he was seeing someone, but he hadn't told them who it was. In Sweden it is all but impossible not to know of or not to to recognize the Crown Princess, so you can imagine what it must have felt like to Daniel's parents when Sweden's future head of state and favorite paparazzi target stepped into their kitchen hand in hand with their son. Victoria has also alluded to that first meeting, describing it as an encounter where Daniel's parents just smiled and said, 'Hello, Victoria! Welcome!'

Ann