(CNN) -- Sweden's royals will soon be welcoming an American into the family, after the royal court announced Thursday the engagement of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill, a wealthy New York financier. The brown-haired, blue-eyed princess described O'Neill as her "soulmate" and said he had opened her heart -- perhaps reflecting her heartbreak after a previous engagement was called off in 2010 amid reports of infidelity by her then fiance. Princess Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine, to give her full name, is the youngest child of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and fourth in line to the Scandanavian nation's throne.
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Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill met through mutual friends in New York
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"I immediately felt something special with Madeleine," says O'Neill
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Madeleine is the third child of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia
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The wedding is planned for next summer but no date has yet been announced
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