If King Carl XVI Gustaf lives and reigns like his two predecessors well into his nineties crown princess Victoria will be in her sixties or even seventies before she becomes queen. If she also is blessed with longevity she could still reign 20 or 25 years. The same for the Prince of Wales.

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: Very interesting. Has he broken any other
: records as well? Or will he soon?
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: He was the first Swedish monarch in more
: than 4 centuries to marry a commoner who was
: not even a noblewoman.
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: However he has a fair way to go before
: claiming the longest-lived record given that
: his 2 immediate predecessors both lived into
: their 90s!
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: And the fact that he succeeded his
: grand-father and not his father as it would
: have been normal.
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: C-G's father died aged only 41.
: Had he lived up to his 90s, like his father
: and grand-father, C-G could have inherited
: the throne only c. 1996, 23 years later
: than he succeeded his gr.father.
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: God forbid, if the Pr. Wales would preceed
: QE II, then Pr.William could have a reign as
: long as his grand-mother's, while in the
: other case, Charles might have a short
: reign, kind of a second Edward VII.
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