Photo: kungahuset.se / Brigitte Grenfeldt
Only a few days left until the wedding
Princess Madeleine, 30, beamed all over her face, repeatedly smiling in love with her groom, Chris O'Neill, 38. The Swedish royal family was also in a good mood when the wedding prelude on 8 June was celebrated.
Chris' mother Eva O'Neill (72) and his half-sister Tatjana D'Abo (46) also took part in the church service. However, the two society ladies between the royal family seemed a bit like birds of paradise: the blooms of their hats too huge, the skirt of the bridegroom mother too short ...
A dazzling jet-set clan
In Sweden, one now wonders what kind of family her princess is getting married to! It is known: It is a glamorous jet set clan. Above all, the native Austrian Eva O'Neill. The stone-rich art and opera patron moves in the very finest circles, likes to surround himself with nobles.
In the 80s she is said to have had a romance with Prince Charles (64). Eva O'Neill, who lives in London today, was married four times. Her three children are from three fathers. Husband No. 3 was Paul O'Neill († 2004), the father of Chris and once a dazzling top banker from New York.
The marriages of her daughters Eva O'Neill has refined threaded: Tatjana is married to the British Earl Henry D'Abo (51). Natascha (45) is the wife of Ernst von Abensperg and Traun (50), an influential bank chief. And soon her son Chris belongs to the Swedish royal family ...
But not only he! Because: Even Sofia Hellqvist (28), the girlfriend of Prince Carl Philip (34), was allowed to take a family photo. A sure sign of a speedy engagement ...
