I wonder if we hadn't had the pandemic, Leonore would have gone to school in Sweden?
No, that ship sailed a long time ago and the King's decision in 2019 to remove the HRH from Madeleine's children, thereby also removing (in the Court's interpretation) their legal obligation to be raised in Sweden, was pretty much the nail in the coffin.
I suppose Madeleine speaks Swedish to her children at home and they will probably continue to go to Sweden in the summer (when the public health emergency is over), at least until they are 18 or so, but, otherwise, I think the children will be raised as Americans and will self-identify as such too.
Not as big a deal as Harry and Archie's case though as Madeleine was not expected to remain a full-time working royal after she married Chris, neither were her children. At least they have now made a clean break with royal duty without any ambiguity after some confusion in the early years when Madeleine still showed up in Sweden from time to time to attend some official events and the Court was still vague about the possibility of then only Leonore and Nicolas going to school in Sweden.
Maybe Madeleine would personally have liked to move back to Sweden, but she caved in , I think, to Chris, who never had any intention to do so and, apparently, was not very comfortable with the time he spent at the Royal Mews apartment.
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