Crown Princess Victoria is already preparing her children for their own royal engagements.
The 39-year-old Swedish royal has two children – five-year-old Princess Estelle and 13-month-old Prince Oscar – with her husband Prince Daniel, and has said she always discusses her royal travels with her children despite their young age, in order to prepare them for when they’ll need to fulfil their own royal engagements.
During a visit to Japan, Victoria said: "Estelle knows that I’m here and [am talking about] fishing, and then we talk about Japan, fisheries, nature and ecology and how things fit together. She is five-years-old, but she’s not too young. On the contrary, she was very interested and receptive. I think we have an obligation as parents and adults to stimulate curiosity."
And Victoria says her parents, Queen Silvia of Sweden and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, did the same thing for her when she was a child, and credits the open discussion with helping her to form a "natural attitude" toward royal duties.
She added to Swedish news outlet Svenskdam: "I think my parents made it very good and educational. They started very often from their travels and their visits in order to speak about Sweden and also in order to speak about the weight to lead forward with Sweden, Swedish valuations, Swedish research and technology. In this way, it becomes, of course, a natural attitude to what the role of such means but also what you are able to assist with."
Crown Princess Victoria preparing children for royal engagements
