The announcement of Princess Madeleine of Sweden’s pregnancy came as a pleasant surprise to royal watchers, and now the 31-year-old royal has admitted even she was shocked.
Appearing on the cover of Sweden’s Elle magazine, the Swedish royal with model good looks says her pregnancy happened “a little fast and very suddenly”.
News that Madeleine and her British-American husband Chris O’Neill would be expanding their family came in early October, only three months after the couple’s lavish Stockholm nuptials.
The expecting mother told the magazine she and Chris are “very happy”.
According to Hello magazine, the 31-year-old third-in-line to the throne is brushing up on the bestselling pregnancy manual What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but did very little pre-pregnancy planning.
“It’s better that way than to plan everything in advance and find that nothing happens,” she says.
The royal couple, who were married in June, think it’s “very exciting” to be preparing for their first-born, Madeleine told Elle.
The Palace has announced Madeleine’s pregnancy would not affect her engagements and charity in the immediate future.
The Princess and her husband, who chose not to take a title after they wed, reside in New York where Christopher works as a financier, and plan to stay there for the foreseeable future.
Madeleine has not ruled out “the possibility of moving to Sweden in due course.”
