19th of June 2010: Millions of Swedes watched their Crown Princess, Victoria, enter the Stockholm Cathedral to marry Daniel Westling. At the end of the aisle, the Lutheran archbishop of Uppsala Anders Wejryd was waiting to begin the ceremony. Yet, without another wedding ceremony that was performed in this church nearly five hundred years earlier, the royal couple might have been blessed by a Roman Catholic archbishop instead.
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