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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has shared the secret of his happy 47-year marriage to Queen Silvia.
The 76-year-old monarch made the admission in an upcoming documentary, titled The King, which will be released next month to mark his Golden Jubilee this year.
When asked for her marriage advice by the film’s director, Karin af Klintberg, the royal told her simply that “separate bathrooms” are the “very practical” answer to a successful marriage, according to the Swedish newspaper. dagens nyheter.
King Charles and Queen Silvia were married on June 19, 1976 in Stockholm Cathedral after meeting at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But their relationship has not been without its tribulations, after rumors of their ‘parties’ of wild sex with strippers and a long affair with a singer’.
Queen Silvia and King Carl Gustaf attend the King’s Dinner for the Nobel Prizes at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on December 10, 2022.
Klintberg described the monarch’s response as “pretty good relationship advice” but noted: “I also thought he was asking another question, perhaps more psychological, but the King seems very matter-of-fact about things and about language.”
For years King Charles’s only acknowledgment of a more competitive world was the fast cars he enjoyed driving, while his 47-year marriage to Queen Silvia was credited as a wonderful example of partnership.
However, in 2010, the Swedish monarchy was rocked by the release of a new biography on the King that purported to shed light on his “wild sex parties with strippers and his long affair with a singer”.
Entitled The Reluctant Monarch, it accused King Carl, who is a third cousin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, of attending underground strip clubs with his friends and having an extramarital affair.
King Charles and Queen Silvia were married on June 19, 1976 in Stockholm Cathedral after meeting at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
In 2010, the Swedish monarchy was rocked by the release of a new biography of the King that purported to shed light on his “wild sex parties with strippers and his long affair with a singer”. No less than 14 pages detail an alleged lengthy affair he had with Camilla Henemark (pictured), the Swedish singer and model.
Following the release of the biography, King Carl offered a “vague” statement, saying that he and his family had chosen to “turn the page…and move on because as I understand it, these are things that happened a long time ago.” .
The controversial book revealed that the King and his friends had enjoyed the company of the ‘coffee potters’, women who ‘entertained’ the group, made up of remnants of the Swedish aristocracy.
Titled The Reluctant Monarch, this book accused King Carl, who is a third cousin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, of attending underground strip clubs with his friends and having an extramarital affair.
It also alleged that the King visited underground strip clubs. In the biography, the three authors of the investigation claimed that the king had “wild sex parties with strippers”, sometimes hosted by an infamous mob boss at a club in Stockholm.
It was also alleged that, for many years, he had been protected by the Swedish secret service Sapo, covering up embarrassing material in his wake and pressuring women to hand over compromising photographs.
According to the late mafia-linked club owner Mille Markovic, quoted in the book, he liked having the King as a client because it minimized the chance of police raids.
Following the book’s publication, Markovic claimed he had compromising photographs of the King with nude women, taken at one of his sex clubs in the 1980s.
In 2021, the author of the controversial biography, Thomas Sjöberg, appeared on a new podcast, Motive, to explore with docu-series creator Nils Bergman the ‘royal scandal’.
In descriptions of the six-part podcast, available via subscription service Acast+, the King and his friends, the so-called ‘royal gang’, are said to have for a few years in the early ’90s had a permanent booking on Mondays in the underground club owned by Markovic.
In 2010, The Reluctant Monarch also accused King Carl (pictured with his wife in 2020) of having an extramarital affair with a famous Swedish singer in the ’90s.
“Young women and strippers have been summoned almost systematically to these nights out to please this elite group of powerful men,” read the synopsis for episode two, translated from Swedish to English.
‘Men have promised the world modeling jobs and careers in the entertainment industry in exchange for giving them what they want.’
Several women interviewed for the book claimed to have had sexual relations with the King. After a large dinner to celebrate a successful moose hunt, he is said to have enjoyed sex with two women at the same time.
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where the King of Sweden was inevitably a VIP guest, he is said to have spent $10,000 (£7,000) at the Gold Club nightclub, including two hours in a room alone with one of the strippers. .
In some cases, Sapo’s agents have allegedly been used to search women’s homes in order to confiscate photographs taken at the King’s private parties.
“If film reels and pictures are not turned over, some nasty things will happen,” the book surprisingly stated.
In 2010, The Reluctant Monarch also accused King Carl of having an extramarital affair with a famous Swedish singer in the 1990s.
No less than 14 pages detail an alleged long-term affair he had with Camilla Henemark, the Swedish singer and model.
His response to the revelations after the book’s release was not to deny them, but simply to say that his lawyer had advised him “not to comment.”
The book claimed that Queen Silvia was aware of this affair but was helpless as the king ‘had fallen in love as a teenager and, on one occasion, the king and Henemark were talking about going to a faraway island, like Marlon Brando in Tetiaroa in French Polynesia, where they planned to live on coconuts.’
‘It’s terrible that all this has come to light,’ said a courtier at the time. But the queen is a soldier. She won’t show anything.