Today, November was grey, but also, SRC got a visit from the Swedish.crown princess. Dauphine. Whatever you want to call it. Heir to the Swedish throne. The supervisors for our group paper on regime shifts in the sub-arctic boreal forests were late to our session, because they got held up in a meeting with the Princess.
In the afternoon, we were sitting in the lobby, master students, papers and computers spread out all over, and the Princess walked by. Looking exactly like you’d expect. My heart reacted instinctively, despite me not being fascinated by royalty at all, not at all.
It’s not that I really care. I’m not a royalist. I was kind of just as star struck by Johan Rockström, the (in certain circles) world famous professor who is the head of the SRC. He isn’t around very much, but today he was showing the Princess around.
It’s just. It felt kind of good. The fact that. That’s the kind of place I study at. A research center that has the Heir of Sweden as its patron.
Katja Malmborg 