# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/61 "2010-06-21T17:34:19Z")
Nope - I scanned the headlines of the NY Times over the weekend and my impressions were: - Local and global sports coverage (MLB, NBA basketball off-season, World Cup) - China’s revaluing the Yuan (renmenbi), uncoupling its currency from a peg to the US Dollar to a basket of currencies (BIG news) - The BP oil situation in the Gulf of Mexico (upshot: “still a clusterfork”; one name on the BP emergency escalation contact list found to be for a person dead for five years) - In (very) local news, a group long lobbying for Federal recognition as a surviving tribe of Native Americans on Long Island (the Shinnecocks) gain the designation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Even today’s front page (online) has no mention of it. (Nor that of the Wall St. Journal, which I also scan in the morning.) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/62 "2010-06-21T17:51:59Z")
Yes, South African. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/63 "2010-06-21T18:43:39Z")
Nope, didn’t hear a word about it. Didn’t even know Sweden had a princess. Don’t catch much news on weekends (US). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/64 "2010-06-21T19:11:16Z")
Thanks for the link Taomist. The groom is kinda cute in a Clark Kent kind of way. Best wishes to the happy couple. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/65 "2010-06-21T20:52:51Z")
Yes - a lot of my friends are of Scandinavian extraction, so I saw it mentioned in a few Facebook status updates. And then I saw the articles on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/66 "2010-06-21T21:05:08Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > 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. Now there’s a fine defense of monarchy - free snacks! ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/67 "2010-06-22T16:32:27Z")
No. From the USA. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/68 "2010-06-22T19:12:47Z")
Yep, US, but only because her sister is my backup plan in case things don’t work out with my wife. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/69 "2010-06-22T19:51:32Z")
I’m from the US, California, and I knew because I check online news websites almost everyday. The thing that popped out to me was that the wedding was unusual, so I read about it ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/70 "2010-06-22T23:51:23Z")
I’m from North Carolina. Hard to imagine not knowing as it was on every news cast and plastered on all the news sites. I guess if it were a weekend where we went camping or hiking or something, I could have missed it. Otherwise, in any scenario where I was apt to have the TV or computer on for more than 2 minutes, I was going to hear about it. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/71 "2010-06-23T01:13:30Z")
Saw it mentioned on a news site, although not sure which one. _Edited to add_ In U.K. here. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/72 "2010-06-23T08:25:07Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Stockholm. Drowned in it. Glad it’s over. Kick 'em to the curb anyway. I am very happy I had a reason to get out of town. > [@Wakinyan](#): > > … God I’m glad it’s over too. Now, can we get back to the World Cup, please? I’m not interested in that either. ☹ > [@Trom](#): > > I just looked at a picture of the princess. I was totally expecting her to have blond hair. Don’t believe everything you hear. Even though you can see some very blond people in the streets my impression is that we dark haired outnumber them. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/73 "2010-06-25T01:43:20Z")
US - MA to be specific. I knew she was engaged, only because I followed a link from somewhere to somewhere else to somewhere else to her wiki page (I do that a lot, generally don’t remember where I started or why). That was a few weeks ago. Before that, I didn’t even know that Sweden had any princesses or princes of marrying ages. So, I knew she was engaged but not that she got married. ---
**Author:** ![firstname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@firstname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firstname)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/74 "2010-06-25T14:41:35Z")
Yes, but I can’t say I cared very much. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/75 "2010-07-05T22:32:48Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > 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. I just finished off a box of Swedish pancake mix that I got from Wegman’s last month. They had a small dispay of Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) products in their international food section with the Crown Princess’s and the former Mr Westling’s pictures. I knew about the wedding beforehand (I pay more attention to royalty gossip than celebrity gossip). ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/76 "2010-07-06T00:16:37Z")
British, saw a picture on the front page of a tabloid in the Supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866/77 "2010-07-06T03:15:49Z")
USA; I was in Vietnam on the day it happened, but I heard about it as shortly afterward anyway, because I was still checking news sites every day or two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-swedish-crown-princess-got-married-yesterday-saturday/543866.md?page=3)