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The lack of judgment that his critics attribute to him has once again exposed Carlos Gustavo of Sweden.

At 76 years old, and without really having to, the Swedish king has taken advantage of an interview with the public channel SVT to dust off an opinion that he had already made known several decades ago, but which had been conveniently forgotten:

the heir to his throne

should be Prince Charles Philippe, his only male descendant, and not his eldest daughter, Princess and future Queen Victoria.

"Snatching the title of successor to Carlos Felipe was a mistake,"

says the monarch during the interview, broadcast as part of a documentary entitled

The Last Kings of Sweden

.

"My son was born as the crown prince and suddenly everything changed and he lost everything.

He was very strange. I still think the law should not be changed retroactively."

Carlos Gustavo, who

has been forced to qualify his words

about him, was referring to the change introduced in the Swedish Constitution in 1980 that allowed women to also inherit the crown.

Carlos Felipe was born in 1979, two years after his sister.

Already in 1980, the king declared that the position of monarch was "too heavy for a girl".

It should be noted that

Carlos Gustavo was proclaimed king in 1973

, after the death of his grandfather, Gustavo Adolfo, despite being the fifth son of princes Gustavo Adolfo (died in a plane crash in 1947) and Sibylla.

The previous four were girls.

In

Sessan

, another recently aired program on the royal family, in this case focused on

Princess Birgitta

, the eldest of the sisters, the

pressure that existed on her mother

, Princess Sibylla,

after giving birth to four babies is underlined.

healthy, but with the "wrong" sex,

in addition to having suffered an abortion.

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In the new documentary, the king is asked directly if he thinks it was unfair that Carlos Felipe lost a title of heir that he came to hold for just six months.

The answer leaves no room for doubt:

"Yes, as a parent it seems terrible to me."

Immediately afterwards, Carlos Gustavo admits that the

constitutional change

had a very positive effect on the popularity of the monarchy in Sweden, since it contributed to modernize the institution, but at the same time he maintains that

the new law should not have been retroactive

and should have gone into effect for your grandchildren, not for your children.

The king with his son Carlos Felipe and his grandson.GTRES

"When it happened, we asked for more patience, but the process went ahead," he adds.

"In any case, it is not a situation that has influenced the

good relationship that exists today between Victoria and Carlos Felipe."

The wave of criticism has not been long in coming.

Outdated and macho

are two of the most frequent terms when it comes to qualifying the king's statements.

There is also, however, a sector of public opinion that sees a certain logic in his words, but that considers it

unnecessary to revive a controversy that has been overcome

and that goes back four decades, apart from the fact that it implies a relative lack of respect for Victoria.

For Anna Andersson, a renowned columnist for the Swedish newspaper

Aftonbladet

, it is shocking that Carlos Gustavo

"continues to openly question a decision adopted by the Swedish Parliament

by a large majority more than 40 years ago."

"The king, like everyone else, has a right to his opinion," Andersson adds, "but the fact that he cannot

publicly hold his tongue

on this matter shows both a lack of sensitivity and gratitude. It is high time he moved with the times." current".

The criticisms have made Carlos Gustavo have had to

rectify, at least in part.

Adapting to current times, as requested by Andersson, he has stressed in a comment posted on Facebook by the Royal House that

he feels "proud" of Princess Victoria

and that he fully supports her as heir to the throne.

"Some of the comments I have heard after the interview aired that I do not wish to support my daughter, Crown Princess Victoria, as successor to the Swedish throne, hurt me deeply," he writes.

"Female succession is a no-brainer to me: the princess is my successor,"

she continues.

"Victoria is an extraordinary asset to me, to my family and to our country. I am proud of her and her tireless work for Sweden."

In any case,

it is not the first time that Carlos Gustavo has gotten into trouble

because of an interview.

Perhaps the most remembered example was when, in 2011, he was asked if he had ever visited "a

stripper

or sex club", a more than persistent rumor at the time.

Her response from him?

"It depends on what you mean by a

stripper

club or a sex club.

It's a very broad concept."

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