Princess Victoria’s other Daniel: ER was her great love for 8 years

Royal fans can no longer imagine any man other than Prince Daniel, 49, at Princess Victoria’s, 46, side. He’s not the first Daniel to win the heart of Sweden’s crown princess. Her first great love also bore this name. It was Daniel Collert, 48, with whom the heir to the throne had been together intermittently from 1993 to 2001. In the same year that they separated, she met the father of her two children. One Daniel took turns with the next. But from the beginning.

Princess Victoria: A photo revealed her love for Daniel number one in 1994

For eight years there was more or less only one place for Daniel in Victoria’s heart: it wasn’t her former personal trainer Westling, but the later film producer Collert. The two met in their teens in 1993, when Victoria turned 16. How Johan T Lindwall, 51, now Editor-in-Chief and Royal Expert of the Swedish newspaper “Svensk Damtidning” reported in 2015 for the “Expressen”, their love was discovered by Björn Lundberg, a photographer for the magazines. He cleared the couple in front of Daniel’s parents’ house in Djursholm, a town in the region Stockholms, off.

Daniel’s difficult childhood and youth

He grew up privileged, his adoptive father is Göran Collert, 86, former CEO of the Swedish savings banks. But he had to cope with heavy losses at a young age – for example when his biological father Staffan Persson, a professor, died of cancer in 1984. His mother Anna C. Persson, a psychologist, found a new love in Göran Collert, but Daniel had to say goodbye to her too early in 1993. She also succumbed to cancer.

First separation in 1996

In the midst of his fateful second year, Daniel Collert met Victoria through mutual friend Marcus “Mackan” Magnusson in 1993, reported Johan T Lindwall. A few weeks after the first meeting with friends, the princess is said to have invited Collert to Drottningholm Palace – the official beginning of their love. Three years later, when Victoria graduated from Enskilda Gymnasium in Stockholm, that was the end of it. That same summer, the daughter of King Carl Gustaf, 77, was spotted alongside Daniel’s best friend Svante Tegnér, and they were quickly said to be more than just friends. There was never a confirmation.

Collert caught Victoria during her 1998 crisis

In 1998, Daniel and Victoria found each other again. It must have been one of her hardest years. Shortly before, on November 28, 1997, the palace confirmed in an official statement that the 46-year-old was suffering from an “eating disorder” and was being “treated”. She fled from the press in the USAwent into therapy there and studied political science and history at Yale University.

Allegedly, according to Johan T Lindwall, Daniel followed her to the USA for “Expressen” and was there for her there. During his time in the USA, Daniel Collert studied at the renowned Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and at the Elite University of Columbia, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts.

Princess Victoria returned to Sweden in 2000 and has since recovered. Daniel stayed in the USA until 2002, the distance apparently did not withstand their love, the relationship ended in 2001.

That became Daniel Collert

Daniel also returned to Sweden in 2002. By then, Victoria only had eyes for Daniel number two. Collert threw himself into work, worked as a film producer for the thriller “Exit – Run for your life” in 2006 and the crime drama “Gangster” in 2007 – which unfortunately brought in financial losses.

Daniel gave up his film career, met and fell in love with the nurse Josefine Davidson and had their son Jack. Today he lives in Östermalm. It is not known what he does for a living and whether he is in a relationship.

Sources used: imdb.com, expressen.se

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