# Did you know the Swedish Crown Princess got married yesterday (Saturday)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866 "2010-06-20T11:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/41 "2010-06-21T04:35:43Z")
It was on the front page of Wikipedia, so I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/42 "2010-06-21T05:21:06Z")
I’m in the US, but my only source of news is the SDMB essentially. It took a few days to filter its way here apparently. So I didn’t know (and chose ‘no’), but now I do! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/43 "2010-06-21T05:46:29Z")
U.S. – yep, it was on the front page of the paper (in a little corner that said, "read in section such and such). ---
**Author:** ![Grapefruit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@Grapefruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grapefruit)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/44 "2010-06-21T05:48:49Z")
Yes, but just by chance. I went to Ikea to pick up a few things and they were giving out this cake thing to celebrate it. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/45 "2010-06-21T07:09:01Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Here’s a video; I don’t speak Swedish, so…good luck! 😃 But it seems fairly official release: very close up, good quality, including the words exchanged and all. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqcnRS1Gm8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqcnRS1Gm8) Thanks for the link! That was lovely! I like weddings and they don’t have to be royal. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/46 "2010-06-21T07:45:10Z")
Yes - lots of photos in the paper here in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/47 "2010-06-21T08:09:55Z")
I saw something on a news website, may have been a local Australian news site, about her marrying her personal trainer, who looked a bit of a dork in the picture I saw. But anyway, yes, I did know about it. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/48 "2010-06-21T08:14:05Z")
Yes, it was televised here in the Netherlands. probably because one of our princesses was a bridesmaid. I can’t believe more than a million people watched while the Football was also on!! ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/49 "2010-06-21T08:36:22Z")
Yup, but I’m in scandinavia, so… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/50 "2010-06-21T09:01:53Z")
No, but I never look at a Lecturas, Hola, Diez Minutos, Qué Me Dices or any other glossies unless it’s the only print at the dentist’s or the hairdresser’s. I’m reasonably sure that if I hopped over to the nearest newskiosk right now, she’ll be on most covers. I also have spent the weekend fixing up my house and haven’t watched or read any news at all. I’m in Spain. ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/51 "2010-06-21T09:59:30Z")
Nope. From western Canada. I don’t know anything at all about Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/52 "2010-06-21T10:47:36Z")
I’m from Norway and I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/53 "2010-06-21T11:13:13Z")
Pictures from the wedding were posted on [Project Rungay](http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/). The site is mostly a place for snarking on fashion, so most of us were there to just look at how the wedding party & guests dressed. General consensus: She looked beautiful & happy, the groom looked like Clark Kent–which is not a bad thing. The Scandinavians seem to take that royal thing less seriously than the Brits. (Poor Diana, the sacrificial virgin.) ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/54 "2010-06-21T13:10:03Z")
UK; a Finnish co-worker of my partner mentioned she was surprised at the lack of coverage here… I hadn’t heard about it beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/55 "2010-06-21T14:10:14Z")
No. USA. I hadn’t watched TV, been on a computer, or read a newspaper the past 4 days. I just looked at a picture of the princess. I was totally expecting her to have blond hair. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/56 "2010-06-21T14:32:46Z")
No idea, but I’ve been 1,000 miles from home helping a friend move, and with minimal access to TV and the internets. > [@](#): > > I just looked at a picture of the princess. I was totally expecting her to have blond hair. Also, a bikini. And pigtails. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/57 "2010-06-21T14:59:14Z")
UK here, and yes, only because I was listening to BBC Radio 2 on Saturday and they were interviewing the Swedish singer Robyn. They kept asking her questions about the wedding to which she eventually replied "To be honest, I really don’t want to talk about it, I don’t care and I’m sick of it’. They reported in the Observer on Sunday that 500 million people watched in live. Really??!! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/58 "2010-06-21T15:28:13Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > They reported in the Observer on Sunday that 500 million people watched in live. Really??!! 750 million watched Charles and Di get married. It was, at the time, the most-watched television broadcast in history. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/59 "2010-06-21T15:51:11Z")
Yes. I live in California, near San Francisco. Saw a vague mention on the internet, then saw a full article, with picture, in the newspaper the next day. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/60 "2010-06-21T17:32:14Z")
Nope. US. In my defense, I usually don’t know about my own country’s celebrity weddings, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866.md?page=4)