Pregnant Princess Sofia of Sweden Says of Milestone 40th Birthday Plans ‘A Bigger Birthday Party Will Wait a Little Bit’

Princess Sofia of Sweden is celebrating a milestone birthday this week.

The royal — who is currently pregnant with her fourth child with husband Prince Carl Philip — will turn 40 on Friday, Dec. 6, and told Vogue Scandinavia that being so late in her pregnancy will thwart any plans she might have had for a big bash to ring in the new decade of her life. (Sofia and Carl Philip announced on Sept. 2 that she is due in February 2025.)

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“I’m going to be quite highly pregnant,” Sofia said in the video interview. “So, I think a bigger birthday party will wait a little bit. So probably just with my closest friends and family.”

That said, she added, “I would not change where I am at all. I’m in a very happy place in life.”

Sofia, who married Carl Philip in 2015, is already mother to Prince Alexander, 8, Prince Gabriel, 7, and Prince Julian, 3. In addition to being personally fulfilled, Sofia told Vogue Scandinavia  that she is also fulfilled through her professional life and royal duties.

“In a world that can feel quite dark, I know a lot of amazing things are happening,” she said. “I can completely understand that sometimes it doesn’t feel like the world is going forward, but it does.”

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Sofia and Carl Philip announced their happy news of baby number four on Instagram three months ago, writing at the time that the princess was “doing well” and that her pregnancy wouldn’t impact her already planned work schedule. The new baby will be eighth in line to the Swedish throne and, while they will be a prince or a princess, they will not receive an HRH styling after Carl Philip’s father King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 2019 decision that the children of Carl Philip and his younger sister Princess Madeleine’s children would no longer be styled as HRH, given that they would not be expected to carry out royal duties in the future. The children of Crown Princess Victoria — Carl Philip’s older sister and heir to the throne — retained their HRH styling.

Prince Carl Philip said he saw the decision as “positive” for his children, adding that it would allow his children to “have freer choices in life.”

“They will retain their prince titles and their duchies, Södermanland and Dalarna, which we value and are proud of,” he added. “Our family has strong connections to both landscapes and we maintain our commitment there.”

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While Carl Philip and Sofia typically keep their family life private, they candidly spoke about how they juggled parenting with royal duties in a 2017 interview with Swedish magazine Kupé (per Hello!). Carl Philip joked that their home was “chaos,” and they were getting used to “diaper changes and sleepless nights.”

Sofia added, “We try to create as much family time as possible in the evenings, with bathing and getting a routine. But ask me again in a few months. We have had small glimpses that it’s tougher with two. But there is also twice as much love.”

And, come February, there will be quadruple the love with baby number four.

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