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Princess Madeleine: The king helps her


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After the bad suspicion

To the royals high moral demands are made! No one is allowed to waste criticism and no one is allowed to do business in order to avoid "conflicts of interest". The latter, however, was accused these days of Princess Madeleine, after a Swedish tabloid had revealed that the king's daughter had participated in various companies of her husband Christopher O'Neill .

This was the evil suspicion in the room, Madeleine would be involved in the active companies and give this thanks to their good name royal splendor. In itself, this is nothing to complain about, only with a princess does the people demand different standards. Therefore King Carl Gustaf now felt duty bound. About his court spokesman he had officially inform that Madeleine had behaved absolutely compliant.

For example, Madeleine was briefly and temporarily registered in two companies (one distributes electronic payment systems, another operates in the investment sector) as Vice-President for bureaucratic reasons. That was done in the meantime. In addition, she was nowhere employed, she was nowhere on the board, she held only three companies five percent of the shares, but not entitled to dividends.

The fact that the reports about Madeleine engagement with her husband were published shortly before Leonore's baptism (8 June), many Swedes, it is said, for no coincidence. They believe that there are circles in the population who do not want to accept that the princess sees her future in the US and wants to build an existence there independently of the royal family.

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