When former reality TV star Sofia Hellqvist swapped vows with Sweden's Prince Carl Philip on Saturday[1], she certainly wasn't the first commoner to marry into royalty—she wasn't even the first in the family. Carl Philip's older sister, Crown Princess Victoria, who's next in line to the throne, married her former personal trainer, Daniel Wesling, in 2010, and his younger sister, Princess Madeleine, married U.S.-Brit businessman Christopher O'Neill in 2013.
More than half a century earlier, Welsh model Lilian Davies was already married when she met Sweden's Prince Bertil in London in 1943. Due to objections from the prince's father the two would wait 30 years to marry. Here she is between Princesses Madeline and Victoria in 2001.
More recently, of course, Kate Middleton—the daughter of a former British Airways flight dispatcher and air stewardess—married Prince William, second in line to the British throne.
Here are five more commoners who rose in the ranks to royalty on their wedding day:
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano & Prince Felipe of Spain
Rania al-Yassin & King Abdullah II of Jordan
Charlene Wittstock & Prince Albert II of Monaco
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson & Prince Frederik of Denmark
Michiko Shoda & Crown Prince Akihito of Japan
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References
- ^ Sofia Hellqvist swapped vows with Sweden's Prince Carl Philip on Saturday (www.glamour.com)
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