5 European princesses set to become queens – from Queen Letizia’s daughter Leonor of Spain, and Victoria of Sweden, to budding pilot Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Jan 10 , 2022

From Leonor, Princess of Asturias, to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, these royals will be queen one day. Photos: @duchessofbrabant, @alexiavanoranje, @alexiavanoranje, @princessleonorr/Instagram; Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden/Facebook

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But although his older sister isn’t likely to be queen, these other female European royals had better luck and will succeed their respective thrones …

1. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden holds the title of heir apparent to the Swedish throne. Photo: @kungahuset/Instagram

Although Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden was born in 1977 – before the Succession Act was made gender neutral in 1980 – she is the next in line to Sweden’s throne because the new rule applies retroactively.

Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, Duchess of Västergötland is the firstborn child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. If not for the historical change, her younger brother Prince Carl Philip Edmund, Duke of Värmland, would have been the heir to the throne.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. Photo: @kungahuset/Instagram

The “princess next door” will be only the fourth female monarch in the country’s history and the first queen regnant since Isabella II in the 1800s.

2. Leonor, Princess of Asturias

Leonor, Princess of Asturias is the heir to the throne of Spain as the eldest daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. Photo: Princess Leonor of Spain/Facebook

Queen Letizia of Spain was a commoner divorcee who quit her journalism career to marry Spain’s King Felipe VI (then a prince), and found herself queen of the country when her husband’s father, King Juan Carlos I, abdicated in 2014 after a scandal-filled reign. Her eldest born child Leonor, Princess of Asturias is only 16 years old, but has the enormous pressure of being next in line to the throne.