What is interesting, commissioner Ingvar Lindell (who did the investigation of female succession) suggested that the government should take into account where the couple should live when giving consent or denying the permission to a person in the line of succession to marry. But this was never put to the law.
An important point, the wording of the Act of Succession is that the children should be "raised in pure evangelical teaching and within the realm".
That sentence was not changed when the Act of Succession was modernized in 1980. And it is apparent from the preliminary work of the law that it was considered very important that the heir to the throne grows up in Sweden.
Commissioner Ingvar Lindell argues in the investigation of female succession (SOU 1977: 5) that a law on marriage rules equals men and women is often applied in different ways. The princes usually bring home their foreign brides to Sweden, while princesses reside in foreign countries where the children are raised, "maybe without closer contact with Swedish language and Swedish society".
Just to avoid the situation that a Swedish princess marries a foreign man and settles abroad, commissioner Lindell suggested that the government should take into account where the couple should live when giving consent or denying the permission to a person in the line of succession to marry.
Lindell suggested that a consent can be combined with the conditions that the couple settles in Sweden and raises the children here. He referred to similar conditions in Denmark when Princess Benedikte married.
However, some such conditions have not been introduced in Sweden and were not discussed at all when Princess Madeleine was to marry the foreign citizen Christopher O'Neill.
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