Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and the 1979 law on absolute primogeniture

While Europe is in quarantine, His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, aged forty, is on manoeuvres. Sweden has not introduced a quarantine, although against the background of the other Scandinavian countries the situation does not look entirely cloudless. Let me clarify at once: Carl Philip is married to the Swedish model Sofia Hellqvist and has two sons. So let us cool the ardour. For ten years of his life the prince, the youngest child in the family, was heir to the Swedish throne, as the only son of the reigning monarch Carl XVI Gustaf, but in 1979 Sweden adopted a new law of succession, based on the so-called principle of absolute primogeniture, whereby the heir is the first-born child of either sex. The heir became the king's eldest daughter, Princess Victoria; after her in the line to the Swedish crown come her daughter, then her son, and after them, fourth in line, the handsome Carl Philip. Which suits him better, tailcoat or military uniform, you may decide for yourselves.