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• Bertil of Sweden (Bertil Gustaf Oscar Carl Eugen)    b. February 28, 1912  d. January 4, 1997
  Prince and sportsman. He was born at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, of the Bernadotte Dynasty, and was then created Duke of Hallandia (Halland). As the son of King Gustaf VI Adolf and his first wife, British Princess Margareta, he was an uncle of the present king (2006). For his great interest in sports, the Swedes nicknamed him a "Sports Prince" and "Motor Prince". Using the alias "Monsieur Adrian", without his royal father knowing, he indeed competed in over a dozen car races around Europe...[Read More] (Bio by: Find A Grave)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   
• Gustav VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustav Adolf)    b. November 11, 1882  d. September 15, 1973
  King of Sweden. Belonging to the Bernadotte Dynasty, he reigned 1950-1973 and was also Duke of Scania. His parents were King Gustav V and Queen Viktoria, a Zähringen Dynasty princess of Baden. He did not become king until he was 67, but like his father before him, he decided not to have a coronation and presided over the once formal and ceremonial Swedish kingdom as a democratic monarchy. Speaking to his subjects seated on the Silver Throne of Queen Christina from 1650, he did however continue...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   
• Louise (Louise Alexandra Marie Irene of Battenberg)    b. July 13, 1889  d. March 7, 1965
  Swedish Monarch. She was a morganatic branch of the Brabant Dynasty of Hesse. Following anti-German sentiment in Britain during World War 1, the immigrant family of Princess Louise abolished their German titles in 1917, and transformed their name into English, and she became Lady Louise Mountbatten. Her parents were Prince Ludwig of Battenberg/Lord Louis Mountbatten, First Marquess of Milford Haven, and Princess/Marquise Victoria, originally of Hesse-Darmstadt. Louise's maternal aunt was the...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   
• Margareta (Margaret Victoria Augusta Charlotte Norah)    b. January 15, 1882  d. May 1, 1920
  Crown Princess of Sweden. Her British royal parents, of the (then) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, were Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Regnant Victoria, and Princess-Duchess Louise, née Hohenzollern of Prussia. Margaret, whose nickname was Daisy, was born at the Bagshot Park palace, England. In 1905 she married the hereditary prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, later king Gustav VI Adolf. Upon arrival in her new country, where she also was Duchess of...[Read More] (Bio by: Benny Chordt Hansen)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   
• Sibylla of Sweden (Sibylla Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora)    b. January 18, 1908  d. November 28, 1972
  Princess of Sweden. Of the Wettin (in Britain Windsor) Dynasty, her father was Duke Karl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and her mother Victoria Adelheid, an Oldenburg Dynasty princess. Sibylla was the mother of current King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. She married the Swedish Heir Apparent, Gustav Adolf, Duke of West Bothnia, in 1932 and bore him first four daughters in a row and then the long awaited son needed for the male-only succession stipulated in those days. In WW2 her family had Nazi...[Read More] (Bio by: J T Demitz)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   
• Sigvard of Sweden (Sigvard Oscar Fredrik)    b. February 7, 1907  d. February 4, 2002
  Prince and Duke. He was Duke of Uplandia (Uppland) and later Count Bernadotte af Wisborg. He lost his royal titles in 1934 after marrying a commoner without government approval. He was later divorced and married twice more, also to non-royals. Sigvard was a well-known industrial designer in his own right and created many famous housewares with appreciated modern shapes and forms. His father was King Gustav VI Adolf who reigned from 1950-1973, and the present King Carl XVI Gustaf is his nephew...[Read More] (Bio by: J T Demitz)
  Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Royal Cemetery), Solna, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
   

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