The newborn was pictured curled up in a strawberry onesie (Image: Princess Sofia via Instagram)
Princess Sofia of Sweden has shared the first photo of her three-day-old daughter hours after her father-in-law accidentally announced the wrong name for his new grandchild.
Princes Ines, who is eighth in line to the Swedish throne, was born at 1:10pm on February 7 at Danderyd Hospital in Stockholm.
And posted a sweet snap of the infant curled up in a knitted blanket on on February 11, dressed in a £26 strawberry onesie from British brand The White Company.
The newborn’s name was confirmed by her grandfather King Carl XVI Gustaf at a council meeting on Monday morning – but in a blunder, the monarch, who is dyslexic, was Princess Inse.
He also got the order of his granddaughter’s middle names muddled. Her full title will be Princess Ines Marie Lilian Silvia, Duchess of Västerbotten.
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The royal couple welcomed their fourth child last week (Image: Getty)
“The King is very sorry that he said the wrong name. The reason is that the names were kept secret until just before the council, even from the King,” the royal court of Sweden clarified shortly afterwards.
“He did not feel that he said the wrong name when he read the names, but he understood that later,” a spokesperson added.
Prince Carl Philip is the only son of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, and is currently fourth in line to the throne after his older sister, Crown Princess Victoria, and her children, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar.
He married Princess Sofia in 2015 after the couple met in a nightclub around 2010. She was formerly a glamour model and had appeared in various Swedish reality shows before the royal romance.
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They live with their three sons in Villa Solbacken, a large estate on the outskirts of the Kungliga Djurgården (Royal Game Park) in Stockholm.
Princes Ines is expected to be christened this summer, when she is three or four-months-old, with tradition dictating that members of the royal family are baptised in an heirloom christening gown which dates back to the ceremony for Prince Gustaf Adolf in 1906.
She has not been given an HRH title in accordance with the King’s changes to the Royal House in 2019 and will be a duchess instead. She will also not be expected to perform royal duties and the change was designed to allow the King’s grandchildren to lead more private lives out of the spotlight.