SWEDEN

Princess engaged to New York banker

Another royal wedding beckons in Europe: This time it is Sweden’s Princess Madeleine who is getting ready to tie the knot.

Madeleine and her US-British boyfriend Christopher O’Neill announced their engagement on the royal palace website on Thursday.

The 30-year-old Madeleine is the youngest of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia’s three children and is fourth in line to the throne.

The tabloid Expressen reported early Thursday that O’Neill, a 38year-old financier she met in New York, had proposed to the princess, and the couple confirmed the news in a brief video clip posted on the royal website.

“Chris proposed to me in New York at the start of October, and we are very happy,” Madeleine said in the video, which was recorded Wednesday at the Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm.

“Madeleine and I have known each other for two years and I recently summoned up the courage to ask her to marry me. Thankfully she said yes,” O’Neill said in English with a British accent. He added a few words in Swedish, saying he was trying to learn the language “but it is difficult.”

Madeleine said the wedding would take place in Sweden in the summer of 2013, and that more details would be released later.