Queen Silvia's sad look back: "I've never talked about it before!" A sentence that makes one sit up and take notice - and breaks decades of silence. Queen Silvia speaks for the first time about an experience that has accompanied her to this day. It happened at a moment that should have changed her life forever.
The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are considered a turning point in Silvia's life. There she met her future husband, King Carl Gustaf - a meeting both later described as love at first sight. From this meeting came a marriage that lasted for decades, with three children, ten grandchildren, and almost 50 years together. But the Munich Games also had a dark side.
On September 5, 1972, terrorists attacked the Olympic Games. Seventeen people lost their lives, and the world looked on in shock at Munich. For many, this marked the end of a sense of security - but for Silvia, the danger apparently was not over yet.