Lady Daly
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Young Prince Nicolas looks very much like his father Chris.
He's a very handsome kid.Young Prince Nicolas looks very much like his father Chris.
I was thinking the exact same!Young Prince Nicolas looks very much like his father Chris.
For sure. However, you still want someone at the house when they are packing to answer any questions about what should happen with certain items that for example cannot be transported by container or air, things that might be left behind or will be taken on as 'luggage' when flying to Sweden. And there is quite some paperwork to sign for international moves.Well kids will be finished school for quite a while. My understanding is that Chris will come later.
Of course it’s huge but ai don’t think for one moment they just won’t hire someone to pack their things things up.
As always, the statements about the move are a mess. It can also be that the finnish newspaper has not understood correctly.I am trying to understand the stages. It sounds as if Madeleine and the children will move back in July (bringing basic stuff like clothes) and Chris will come as well but go back to Florida afterwards to arrange the real move later that summer. Or will he not come at all until he's arranged everything back home?
and Thorgren replies in a message to Hänt: "The princess's entire family is moving to Sweden after the summer".
People like Prince Daniel or the Duke of Edimburgh are (or were) married to future queens, so they had no alternative but to give up their former private life and become full-time working royals. That is not the case, however, of most husbands of royals who are not direct in line to the throne. Pieter van Vollenhoven, Lorenz of Austria-Este and Sir Timothy Laurence are examples of men who married royal princesses and did not have to give up their careers.After all those messages of Mrs. Thorgren I get the impression that she doesn't exactly know how the family's plan is. But , that is probably not her fault, but Madeleine and her husband seem to have problems with the great move.
Madeleine recently looked haggard and stressed. Maybe they still have problems to find a compromise. It isn't easy to move a whole family from another continent with a different culture and style of living to another continent. Maybe Chris wanted to stay in the US and Madeleine tried and after a while wasn't comfortable, homesick, wanted her children to be back in her family. I can well understand that. Chris on the other hand seems to be a very cosmopolitan guy having grown up in family like that. He doesn't belong to a royal family, always insisted to provide for his own family, doesn't want to subdue to royal duties like some other husbands have done. Although, when I think about it, the only othersthat come to mind is Daniel of Sweden and the late Duke of Edinborough who completely gave up their own life and ambition to support their wifes.
Sure there is a difference because Madeleine is not the heir... I just hope for them to have made the right decision and they all will be content with the new life in Sweden.
It will not be easy for the children because they are in an age where they have grown up and went to school in the US, maybe adapted the lifestyle and made friends.
Anybody who ever made that experience of moving a family with children from one country to another will understand that this is not an easy thing to do
The school year starts around 20th of August, which is the start of autumn on our latitudes. So yes, it's considered to be "after the summer".Since the school year begins in late summer, the children will be unable to start on schedule if they only move to Sweden "after the summer". Does this suggest the move is being postponed again, or is it only their father who will wait until after summer to return to Sweden?