Lena
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GrandDuchess said:For example during the Brunei scandal, Persson publicly defended the King in his statements and at a press conference, and during the recently televised documentary series on his period at PM, there is an episode were he talks about how missunderstood the King was then, that it's important to stand behind the compromiss that created our current monarchist system as a public leader and how much the Royal Family does for Sweden.
Naja...considering, that Brunaigate was also a politicial matter (with someone out of the official politicial apparatus informing the king about Brunai) it´s not so surprising, that he defended the king. If he would have joined the accusation campaign, the wind could have changed pretty fast. And ppl would have blamed the government. After all these state visits are not something Carl Gustaf is doing to broaden his geographical horizon and to get some good wine...
And I guess the government wasn´t in 7th heaven either, when the king took the window of opportunity and put himself into the glory light at the things around Tusnami and spread subtle hints about the government having reacted too slow ("Maybe it´s sometimes better to send an ambulance a few times too often, than too less..." or something like that. In his position he had it easy to say that)
Well, we don´t know it for sure and it´s clear, that you are seeing things different.
And maybe they really got along well. After all Göran Persson surely was more king than social democrat. So they maybe could talk about the sweet sides of life