This constitutional amendment introduced absolute primogeniture, meaning that the throne would be inherited by the monarch's eldest child regardless of gender. Victoria was made crown princess on 1 January 1980 by the 1979 amendment to the Act of Succession of 1810 ( Successionsordningen). She speaks Swedish, English, French and German. In June 2009, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Uppsala University. The program is a training program for young future diplomats and gives an insight to the ministry's work, Swedish foreign and security policies and Sweden's relations with the rest of the world. In 2006, Victoria enrolled in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Diplomat Program, running from September 2006 to June 2007. In 2003, Victoria's education continued with visits to Swedish businesses, a study and intern program in agriculture and forestry, as well as completion of the basic soldier training at SWEDINT (the Swedish Armed Forces International Centre). Victoria completed a study program at the Government Offices in 2001. In May 1999, she was an intern at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. From 1998 to 2000, Victoria resided in the United States, where she studied various subjects at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Victoria studied for a year (1996–97) at the Catholic University of the West at Angers in France, and in the fall term of 1997 participated in a special program following the work of the Riksdag. The Crown Princess was confirmed in the summer of 1992 at Räpplinge church on the island of Öland. Her godparents were Crown Prince Harald of Norway (later king of Norway), her maternal uncle, Ralf Sommerlath, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (later queen of the Netherlands, 1980–2013), and her aunt Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld.
She was baptised at the Royal Palace Church on 27 September 1977. Her other names honour her great-aunt Ingrid of Sweden her maternal grandmother, Alice Soares de Toledo her ancestor Désirée Clary, queen consort of Sweden and her paternal aunt and godmother, Princess Désirée. Her first name comes primarily from her great-great-grandmother Victoria of Baden, queen consort of Sweden.
Her given name, Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, honours various relatives. Her place as first in the line of succession formally went into effect on 1 January 1980 with the parliamentary change to the Act of Succession that introduced absolute primogeniture. Born as a princess of Sweden, she was designated crown princess in 1979 ( SFS 1979:932) ahead of her younger brother. She is a member of the House of Bernadotte.
Victoria was born on 14 July 1977 at 21:45 CET at the Karolinska Hospital in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden, and is the oldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Her inheritance is secured by Sweden's 1979 Act of Succession, the first law in Western Europe to adopt royal absolute primogeniture. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she would be Sweden's fourth queen regnant (after Margaret, Christina and Ulrika Eleonora) and the first since 1720. Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland (Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée born 14 July 1977) is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, as the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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