"Growing up a king without a father is very interesting."

TV series about the Swedish royal family after the success of "The Crown"

Producer Anna Valmark Avelin: "The royal family in Sweden is different."

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Work has begun to produce a television series about the royal family in Sweden, according to its producer, in a statement to Agence France-Presse. It is similar to "The Crown", which dealt with the British royal family, and has recently achieved great success on Netflix.

The series deals with the life of King Carl XVI Gustaf (74 years) and his family. He was temporarily called "Monarchy".

Producer Anna Valmark Avelin expressed her enthusiasm for the project, saying that it was still "only in the beginning stage", stressing that the script written by Asa Lantz had not yet been completed, and that the distribution had not started.

Anna Valmark Avelin works for the production company "Film Lance", which is responsible for filming the series on behalf of "TV4" and the streaming platform "Sea More".

She expected the comparisons with "The Crown" to be inevitable, but stressed that the Swedish directors would not seek to compete with it.

Describing "The Crown" as "wonderful", she made clear that the royal family in Sweden is "different."

She explained that the way in which the subject will be treated has not been precisely defined yet, but the focus will be on the personal dimension, with an approach from a human point of view.

She added, "We rarely think about it, but the king's upbringing without a father is very interesting," referring to the death of the king's father in a plane crash in 1947, when he was nine months old.

Carl Gustaf XVI was 27 when he ascended to the throne, after the death of his grandfather Gustav Adolf VI in 1973. He married Queen Silvia in 1976. The royal couple had three children, the eldest of whom was Crown Princess Victoria, the first in line of succession.

- The series deals with the life of King Carl XVI Gustaf and his family, and it was temporarily called "Monarchy".

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