Swedish Princess Breaks Off Engagement

Princess Madeleine of Sweden has broken off her engagement with attorney Jonas Bergstrom in eight months after she announced her marriage.

``They have decided that the best for them is to go their separate ways,'' the Associated Press quoted the Swedish Royal Court as saying.

The couple announced their engagement in August last year, but a date had not yet been set for the wedding.

The reasons for the break up were not disclosed, but Norwegian magazine Se og Hoer published an interview this week with a woman named Tora Uppstroem Berg who claimed she had spent a night with the princess' fiance at a popular Swedish skiing resort last year.

The court has not commented on the report.

According to the Royal Court calendar, the princess is set to spend the next few weeks in the U.S. to work with the World Childhood Foundation.

Madeleine, 27, is third in line to the Swedish throne, after her sister Crown Princess Victoria and brother Prince Carl Philip. After completing an undergraduate degree in art, history and ethnology in 2006, she has combined studies in social affairs with work for the World Childhood Foundation in Stockholm.

Bergstrom, 31, has a master's degree in law and has worked as an associate lawyer at a firm in Stockholm since 2006.

Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine ― the Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Halsingland and Gastrikland ― is the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

She has two older siblings, Crown Princess Victoria who is getting married to her fiance Daniel Westling in June and Prince Carl Philip.

스웨덴 공주 파혼

스웨덴 마델라이네 공주가 결혼발표 8개월만에 이혼을 결정했다.

마델라이네 공주는 스웨덴의 변호사인 요나스 베리스트룀과 8년 가량 연인관계를 유지해 왔으며 7년 이상 동거해왔다.두 사람은 지난해 공식적으로 결혼을 발표,성대한 약혼식을 치르기도 했었다.

하지만 최근 베리스트룀과 21세 노르웨이 여인간 스캔들이 노르웨이 잡지에 보도되면서 두 사람간 관계가 파국으로 치달았다.결국 마델라이네 공주는 결별이란 극단적인 카드를 선택했다.