biography
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Silvia
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originally Silvia Renate Sommerlath
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Queen of Sweden (1976– ), born in Heidelberg, SWC Germany, the daughter of a West German businessman and his Brazilian wife. She studied at the Interpreters' School in Munich, graduating in 1969 as an interpreter in Spanish. In 1971 she was appointed chief hostess in the Organization Committee for the Olympic Games in Munich (1972), where she met Carl Gustaf, then heir to the Swedish throne. They were married in 1976. |
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