The banns of marriage for Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist

King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Princess Estelle, Princess Madeleine, Chris ONeill, Princess Leonore, Marie and Erik Hellqvist attend an service in the chapel and an reception for the presentation of the banns before the wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, Sweden, 17 May 2015. Prince Carl Philip and his bride-to-be, Sofia Hellqvist, announced their impending marriage at a traditional church service in Stockholm. The wedding will take place on June 13, 2015. (The service, called the "lysning" or "publishing of the banns" in English, is a public announcement of an upcoming marriage that was originally meant to allow anyone to raise canonical or civil legal objections to the union)

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