Queen Silvia of Sweden (79) inaugurated a house of her “Childhood” organization in Munich-Großhadern on Thursday. “It’s nice to be back in Munich,” she began her emotional speech at the opening of the ninth “Childhood” house in Germany. It fills her with great pride, she explained according to “Bunte.de”. With her “World Childhood Foundation”, founded in 1999, the Swedish Queen fights against violence against children.

The Bavarian state capital also has a special meaning for the native of Heidelberg, because it was in her “love city” that the hostess Silvia Sommerlath met her later husband, today’s King Carl XVI, at the 1972 Olympic Games. Gustaf (77), know.

Appropriately, there was a “Waldi”, the mascot of the sporting event at the time, as a guest gift during their visit to Munich. “With a big smile, Silvia from Sweden accepted the dachshund – while some of those present had big question marks in their eyes, the 79-year-old recognized the animal immediately,” the article says.