The smoking Princess

Sweden’s aspiration of fostering the Most Perfect Royal Family in the world has suffered a setback. Giving away over ten million Euros every year to H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf appears not to be enough to guarantee a successful saga.

Scandals always threaten the iconography of faultlessness. The protagonist of the latest blunder is 27 years old Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine, Princess of Sweden and Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland.

A couple of hours before the U2 concert last month in Gothenburg, she smoked in public after dining at the first rated restaurant Sjömagasinet. She did that despite the fact that The Royal Children have been instructed not to smoke, make out or do something spectacular in public.

But Madeleine ignores the rules, which may be bad for the royalist servants but is really good for the business of the evening press in Sweden and its lucrativly distortive, witty journalism.

Many “lagom” Swedes think it is the Princess’ duty to set an example for the young generations in Sweden. True to my conviction as “antilagom”, I rather want Madeleine to keep showing her lack of moral fibre, so that the majority in this sadly imperfect democracy finally becomes conscious about the urgent need to put an end to this brainless, outdated and farcical saga, and send Madeleine and her siblings out to look for real jobs and to live real lives.