Sweden's royal family greet and baptize newcomer Prince Oscar

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The latest addition to the Swedish royal family was christened on Thursday in Stockholm, King Carl Gustaf XVI announced.

Prince Oscar Carl Olof, Duke of Skane region, was baptized at the Royal Palace in Stockholm before salutes were fired in five Swedish cities at midday, daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.

"We have been blessed with a prince," the King said after the cabinet meeting that follows a royal birth.

Prince Oscar was born to Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel on Wednesday evening before the family's discharge from a Stockholm hospital on Thursday morning.

"The whole family was shining. We wish them all the best," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said after visiting the newborn at Haga Castle north of the city.

Prince Oscar is third in line to the Swedish throne after his mother Victoria and older sister Princess Estelle.

Prince Oscar's was the fourth royal birth in Sweden since 2012. Endit

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