 These plans were not popular among the royal house nor with the Swedish government.Foreign minister Baltzar von Platen made preparations to prevent the marriage, the attaché of the Swedish legation in Turin worked to prevent the Italian king from getting involved, and the king's mother, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, visited the Spanish royal couple in Madrid to ask them to speak to the Italian king to prevent his adoption of Krasinska.In the spring of 1872, Charles XV was ready to travel to Switzerland to meet her, and had already appointed his retinue.