Royal wedding
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm Prince Bertil of Sweden, aged 64, and a Welsh-born former actress, Lilian Craig, aged '57, will have a safari honeymoon in Kenya in January*after their wedding in Stockholm on December 7, the Royal palace said. Their marriage will bring to a happy end their 33-year “forbidden romance" which began in wartime London, when she was a nurse and he was military attache there. The couple told the newspaper “Svenska Dagbladet” that they met in the summer of 1943 at a private party in London on Mrs Craig’s birthday. “In the beginning we had to conceal our love, but when it became known, the newspapers entered into an unwritten contract with us which has really helped us to cope during these 33 years,” said Prince Bertil, uncle of King Carl Gustaf of Sweden. “It was the express wish of my father (the late King Gustaf Adolf) that we should not marry until my nephew did.” King Gustaf Adolf died in September 1973. His grandson, Carl Gustaf, became king and married a West German commoner, Silvia Sommerlath, last June. King Carl Gustaf, after consulting the new nonSocialist Government, has given his uncle formal permission to marry Mrs Craig.
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