STOCKHOLM, June 8: Flag-waving Swedes and royals celebrated as Sweden's Princess Madeleine, the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf, on Saturday married New York businessman Chris O'Neill.

Royal watchers cheered as the newlyweds kissed three times in front of the crowd after leaving the palace in Stockholm.

With a bright sun shining, the couple rode in a horse and carriage procession through the streets of the capital, heading from the Royal Palace to the nearby island of Riddarholmen.

From Riddarholmen, they were scheduled to travel by boat with some of their wedding guests to the Drottningholm Palace, where Madeleine was born in 1982, for dinner.

At the ceremony inside the royal chapel, O'Neill held back tears as his bride walked down the isle to a Swedish wedding hymn, minutes before Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson performed one of her best know Swedish ballads.

The wedding, held in Swedish and English, was witnessed by other royals, including Princess Charlene of Monaco, Princess Takamado of Japan and Britain's Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.—AFP