Princess Lilian of Sweden

摘要

As bridal couples go, they were hardly in the flush of youth. He was 64, with thinning hair and a tired, jowly face. She was 61, tiny, her hair silver, though her blue eyes were steady and her skin still clear. Instead of a wedding gown she wore a coat-dress in metallic blue, and carried lilies of the valley. On a cold, pale December day in 1976 in the little chapel in the royal palace of Drottningholm, before the King and Queen of Sweden, Prince Bertil slid the wedding ring on her finger and kissed her hand. And she, Lilian Craig, became a princess of Sweden and Duchess of Halland and, in Swedish eyes, an honest woman.