SB(Sven Broman): This is from Sweden
GG: Oh, Mr Broman...
SB: I hope I don`t disturb, I just wanted to tell you that, quite short, that I was so surprised this morning when I turned on the radio...
GG: What was on?
SB: No... on the radio they said that The King had stated during a press Meeting in New York that he and the Queen had met you..
GG: Really???
SB: Yes....
GG: It was so short and so unexpected... they have been after me the Whole time...
SB: Yes I heard of it this Autumn.... But I didn`t hear anything afterwards....
GG: No--- I got a telegram from the Palace... And they asked if I could answer... if I wanted to participate in any kind,,,, so I asked my niece to call that man to say I couldn`t do that.... so I thought the whole thing was over,,
But it is that Lady to arranges everything for them... I know her a little bit, not much....she kept on... I couldn`t get away from her(laughs)... and then she sent a letter... handwritten... she didn`t have my phonenumber... and sent it by a chauffeur probably... and said they would be so happy... and I thought Oh My God - I will have to put on some shoes and attend.... and I did...
SB: I think you made them overjoyed. This is the best that could have happened to ...
GG: They didn`t look overjoyed at all....(laugh in her voice)
ST: Really? The Queen is pleasant isn`t she?
GG: Oh... she is so beautiful! She is dreadfully(In Scandinavia this is meant in a posetive manner) beautiful.... I couldn`t get over how beautiful she was....
SB: And intelligent...
GG; Oh....she probably is....
SB: And the King is a bit shy I think....???
GG: No, he wasn`t shy, he was very pleasant... But in all - it was so short....(the Meeting)
I was so nervous when I said I would arrive... I saw in the paper that they had a very tight Schedule... so I thought that they may have some regrets about the meeting.. that I was included too..... so I tried to get hold of that lady to say "maube this is too difficult for them", but I couldn`t reach her..
SB: So this was in the morning then?
GG; Yes it was in the morning... and then they went to some lake and stayed there the whole day---- It was some kind of function for them... It can`t be easy for them....
SB: Yes... they are gonna travel to many different Places....
GG: Ah.... must be a hardship-
SB: Well they are Young.... but for them and us... as I said to my wife.... it was a meeting between to Queens ...
GG: (laughs) Ahhh---- but she is the real one... the veritable(the genuine one) She is a real Queen, I am not a real Queen.....
Just think of it... I met his father and grandfather...
SB: So you met his father too? The one who died in a planecrash?
GG: Oh yes... I didn`t know him, but we met...
SB: Prince Gustav Adolf was a stylish(handsome) man wasn`t he?
GG: Very stylish... and so handsome...But I didn`t know him....
So now it is the third generation that makes me feel like an old gubbe(Scandinavian Expression for old man)
SB: Noo-----
GG: So (meeting) their children remains
SB: They are very sweet...
GG: Yes they are...
I didn`t remove my black glasses.... I came to think of that afterwards.... They don`t know how I look without glasses
SB: What beautiful thing did you wear then?
GG; (deadpan) Nothing.... I was naked....
SB laughs.....
GG: I never go out... I don`t have any clothes.... But it went fairly well..
Notes: Keep in mind that I translated in a bit of a hurry... She may come off as a bit cold in my translation.... Nothing to it.... This is a very charming elderly Swedish old woman:-)
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