It’s official: America is getting a royal family.
A Swedish royal family, to be exact. Today, the Royal Court announced that Princess Madeleine and her family will move to Florida in the fall.
“The time and opportunity for the United States is good for the family when the children are still in preschool age,” it said in a press release.
At first blush, it may seem like a crazy move: After all, Florida is about 5,000 miles away from Sweden—not to mention the different cultures and climates. But Madeleine and her husband, Christopher O’Neill, are actually very connected to the States.
O’Neill is British-American, and he met Madeleine in 2010 while the princess was working in New York City. After they got married in 2013, they stayed in the States for a brief time and welcomed their first child, Princess Leonore. In the years after, they decided to decamp to London and Stockholm, where they had two more children: Adrienne and Nicolas.
The Royal Court confirmed that, upon their move, the family will leave the British capital but still keep a residence in Sweden.
Which city or town in Florida is still unknown—however, the Palm Beach Daily News reported that O’Neill’s mother lives in Palm Beach, so perhaps the family of five will be moving closer to her.
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