Swedish royal baby is Estelle
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February 25, 2012, Saturday
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SWEDEN'S new royal baby is called Estelle, the king announced yesterday, a name which local media linked to the wife of a Swedish aristocrat credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews in World War II who was later assassinated by a Jewish group.
Crown Princess Victoria gave birth early on Thursday morning. The child is second in line to the throne after Victoria and is the first royal birth in 30 years. "It is a name which is very close to the heart of the princess and also the family," King Carl XVI Gustaf told a meeting of senior officials to announce the name, which in full was Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary.
Estelle was the name of the American wife of Count Folke Bernadotte. Her maiden name was Manville and she died in Sweden in 1984.
Folke Bernadotte, a nephew of a former king and deputy head of the Swedish Red Cross, became famous for arranging white buses to save tens of thousands of Jews from extermination in Nazi Germany in the dying days of World War II. But as the first official mediator of the United Nations, he was assassinated by a Jewish group in 1948 after negotiating a truce in the first Israeli-Arab war.
Silvia is the name of Victoria's German-born mother while Ewa is Victoria's mother-in-law's name.
Crown Princess Victoria gave birth early on Thursday morning. The child is second in line to the throne after Victoria and is the first royal birth in 30 years. "It is a name which is very close to the heart of the princess and also the family," King Carl XVI Gustaf told a meeting of senior officials to announce the name, which in full was Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary.
Estelle was the name of the American wife of Count Folke Bernadotte. Her maiden name was Manville and she died in Sweden in 1984.
Folke Bernadotte, a nephew of a former king and deputy head of the Swedish Red Cross, became famous for arranging white buses to save tens of thousands of Jews from extermination in Nazi Germany in the dying days of World War II. But as the first official mediator of the United Nations, he was assassinated by a Jewish group in 1948 after negotiating a truce in the first Israeli-Arab war.
Silvia is the name of Victoria's German-born mother while Ewa is Victoria's mother-in-law's name.
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