Just an ordinary citizen?

After work on Friday, I went to pick up my mom at the train station. As people were getting off and I was trying to spot her face in the crowd I spotted a face that I definitely wasn't expecting to see. Prince Carl Philip. I know he's studying some sort of farming down in Skåne, and he was probably just going home for the weekend to see his family and girlfriend. But still, he's a prince! And he was just walking there like a normal person, bag slung over his sholder and baseball hat on his head. He was definitely more attractive in real life than when he's on the cover of old ladies' gossip magazines. This was actually the second time I saw him, the first I was maybe 10 or so and we were taking a tour of their summer house premises at Öland, and he came by in the back of a car. Perhaps we're meant to be together?

I do admire him for wanting to be normal. People sometimes complain that they're given too much money for doing nothing, but seriously, I would not want to trade places for all the money in the world. Those kids did not choose a life in the spotlight, they're not like the other celebs out there who even if they're in the business just because of their passion for acting or music or whatever it may be, actually made an active choice to be in the public eye. And other celebs can make mistakes and they will be forgiven for them. Royalties are just scrutinized, their every move is closely monitored and they'd best behave or they'll be in a whole lot of trouble. The people that they've finally ended up with, their significant others, are very brave indeed in my eyes, for being willing to put up with the whole media frenzy, for accepting that they have to give up their life as they know it to become part of the most famous family in Sweden, a family that people either love or hate, but always have an opinion on.

It's a good thing that they do, though. Imagine if royalty would only marry royalty. The royalties of the world would be very messed up by now, perhaps even extinct. And even if I can't say that I'm the biggest royalist in the world, I wouldn't wish upon anyone to be forced to marry their cousin.