Five of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden’s seven grandchildren will no longer have to perform royal duties and will no longer receive taxpayer support, the Swedish Royal House announced Monday.
The King has three children. His eldest daughter and heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, has two children, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar, who were exempt from the Monday decision (as the current second and third in line). But the children of Carl’s younger children, Prince Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine, were stripped of their royal titles.
Carl Philip’s children, Prince Alexander and Prince Gabriel, and Madeleine’s children, Princess Leonore, Prince Nicolas, and Princess Adrienne, “will continue to be members of The Royal Family,” a statement from the Royal House read. “However, they will no longer enjoy the style of Royal Highness and, in the future, will not be expected to perform duties incumbent on the Head of State.
The children will retain the Duke or Duchess titles they..