Madeleine's split - don't know which side to choose
How do you do when your husband and children are on one side of the Atlantic and the rest of the family and the duty is on the other? A question to which Princess Madeleine has not yet found an answer.
When Princess Madeleine left Sweden for the United States in 2010 after the dramatic break-up from Jonas Bergström, most people probably thought it was just a temporary escape. But that would prove to be the last time Madeleine was permanently living in Sweden. Once in New York, she started working at the World Childhood Foundation's office and made herself more and more at home.
After just a few months in the country, Madeleine met Chris O'Neill. Chris, who was born and raised in England, has English language naturally and Madeleine's international connection was further strengthened. When it was time for a wedding in 2013, the wedding was in both Swedish and English, and Princess Madeleine's first child was born in New York.
Shortly thereafter, she and her family moved temporarily to Sweden before settling in London 2015. But it only took three years before they chose to move back to the United States, this time to Florida.
The criticism of Princess Madeleine
It has not been a painless choice for Princess Madeleine to move across the Atlantic and only come home a few times a year. The criticism has been hard at times and Madeleine has shown several times that she herself feels divided over the situation.
Should she go home to the Nobel party or stay home with her children? The choice is not easy, especially when the rest of the family at home in Sweden goes to assignment after assignment. At every event and every official appearance where the whole royal family is expected to appear, the question will always be whether Madeleine will be present and in most cases the answer will be no.
This summer, when Madeleine was in Sweden for an extended period, she took the opportunity to show herself as much as possible. Book signing, National Day celebration, a banquet at the Palace, visits to the organizations My Big Day and Masktosbarn and the traditional celebration of her big sister in Öland were done before Madeleine and the family returned to the United States.
The latest proof of Madeleine's dilemma was when she suddenly changed language in her posts on Instagram, from English to Swedish, and then switched to English again.
At the time of writing, Princess Madeleine has 217,000 followers on Instagram, and the first post was published in March 2018. She has since written in English with the exception of a few posts about Childhood and the book "Stella och hemligheten".
But after staying in Sweden, Swedish instead became the main language on the Princess's Instagram, right up to the invitation to followers to donate money to Unicef and the Red Cross after the storm in the Bahamas. Understandably of course to reach as many people as possible. But most people who comment on her posts seem to come from Sweden. The question is whether the princess will continue to update in Swedish in the future in order to have a better relationship with her Swedish followers or English in order to gain a wider audience? Continuation follows, simply…
Madeleines splittring – vet inte vilken sida hon ska välja _ Svensk Dam