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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland, was born Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée on 14 July 1977 at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm.
She is the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and the heir apparent to the Swedish throne.
Under the 1980 Act of Succession, which introduced absolute primogeniture, she became Crown Princess and first in line, ahead of her younger brother.