Victoria, 34, is next in line to the throne held by her father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, since 1973}

(CBS/AP) Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to her first child early Thursday, the country’s first royal baby in three decades.

Victoria’s husband, Prince Daniel, said the girl, who is second in line to the Swedish throne, was born at 4:26 a.m. at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm. She was 20 inches long and weighed 7.23 pounds.

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“When I left the room the little princess was sleeping on her mother’s chest and they were looking very cozy,” an emotional Daniel told reporters. “The little daughter and the crown princess are doing very well.”

Victoria married Daniel, 영동출장업소 a commoner and her former personal trainer, in June 2010. In August last year, the Royal Court announced that Victoria was pregnant.