Carl Gustav XVI had an accident when she was driving to the airport Bromma. In his car was hit by another car on the bridge Nockebybanan, where currently undergoing renovations.

As said the press-Secretary of the Swedish Royal family, Carl Gustav XVI was not injured, according to Swedish newspaper the Local.

68-year-old king personally love to drive. However this time he was riding in the back seat.

"The machine has a powerful defects, but the king was not injured. With him all right, he's not even in shock," said the adept of the Royal court Margareta Thorgren.

According to her statement, the king continued his own journey in the security car, which moved behind his car. After that he flew on an official visit to the region vöºsterbotten. There, the monarch must meet with local entrepreneurs and to attend the opening of the dairy plant.

Carl XVI Gustaf was born on 30 April 1946. On June 19, 1976 he married Queen Silvia. The couple has 3 children - crown Princess Victoria (1977), Prince Carl Philip (1979) and Princess Madeleine (1982). The duties of a king in Sweden are mainly ceremonial and Executive in nature. An ancestor of the present Royal dynasty in Sweden is considered a Napoleonic Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte.
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