#crown prince gustaf adolf of sweden

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ᴀ ᴄᴜᴛᴇ ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏ sʜᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴄʜʀɪsᴛɪᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇss ɪɴɢʀɪᴅ ᴏғ sᴡᴇᴅᴇɴ, 𝟻ᴛʜ ᴍᴀʏ 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶. ʜᴇʀ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ, ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇss ᴍᴀʀɢᴀʀᴇᴛ ᴏғ ᴄᴏɴɴᴀᴜɢʜᴛ, ʜᴏʟᴅs ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ɪɴɢʀɪᴅ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʜᴇʀ ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀs, ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ɢᴜsᴛᴀғ ᴀᴅᴏʟғ, ᴅᴜᴋᴇ ᴏғ ᴠäsᴛᴇʀʙᴏᴛᴛᴇɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ sɪɢᴠᴀʀᴅ ᴀʀᴇ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ sɪᴅᴇ.

𝙶𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚏 𝙰𝚍𝚘𝚕𝚏 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚂𝚠𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚕 𝚇𝚅𝙸 𝙶𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚏, 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 (𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝟷𝟺𝚝𝚑 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢) 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝙸 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎-𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎, 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚜!

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[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

The Four Eldest Children of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught 🤍

From L to R: Bertil, Ingrid, Sigvard, and Gustaf Adolf 🖤

[thepastisalreadywritten]

BORN ON THIS DAY:

Princess Margaret of Connaught (Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah; 15 January 1882 – 1 May 1920) was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf.

She was the elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and his wife, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia.

Known in Sweden as Margareta, her marriage produced five children.

She was the grandmother of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

She died 30 years before her husband's accession to the throne of Sweden.

[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 78th birthday to King Carl XVI Gustaf!

Born on April 30th 1946, Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus acceded to the throne of Sweden upon the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973.

Carl XVI Gustaf became Sweden's crown prince and heir apparent to the throne at the age of four following his great-grandfather's death. Carl Gustaf's father, Prince Gustaf Adolf, died in a plane crash in 1947 when Carl Gustaf was only nine month old. He is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history, having surpassed King Magnus IV's reign of 44 years and 222 days on 26 April 2018.

He married Silvia Sommerlath on 19 June 1976 and they have three children: Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Vastergotland, Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Varmland and Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland.

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Queen Louise of Sweden as a young princess by Philipp Alexius de Laszlo (oil on canvas, 1907)

Queen Louise, formerly Lady Louise Mountbatten, was born as Princess Louise Alexandra Marie Irene of Battenberg in Germany in 1889, but grew up in England.

During the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross and served as a nurse from March 1915 to July 1917. Queen Louise took an active interest in nurses' working conditions. During the Winter War, she opened a children's home for Finnish war orphans at Ulriksdal Palace. She also participated actively at Sophiahemmet's meetings.

In 1923, she married Crown Prince Gustaf (VI) Adolf.

Louise has been described as a staunch democrat and a practical person who disliked the attention she received as queen.

Photo: royalpalaces.se

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Today His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden can celebrate 50 years on the throne.

Her Majesty the Queen, the Crown Prince Couple and Her Majesty Queen Anne-Marie are in Stockholm to participate in the anniversary celebrations.

Their Majesties and Their Royal Highnesses together with the Swedish royal family visited this morning King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden's grave in Hagaparken. The former Swedish king was the grandfather of King Carl Gustaf and maternal grandfather of the Queen, Princess Benedikte and Queen Anne-Marie.

Then followed a thanksgiving service, Te Deum, in the Royal Church of Stockholm Palace, followed by the changing of the guard and a song tribute in the palace courtyard, where the jubilee, the Nordic heads of state and the other royals appeared on the balcony.

📷 Detdanskekongehus vía instagram

[royally-obsessed]

on this day in 1956

European Royalty in Stockholm

Royal figures of Europe sit together in the front row of the audience of a festival performance; Princess Margaret, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Consort Louise Mountbatten, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth II, King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Princess Josephine Charlotte of Belgium, Crown Prince Olav of Norway and Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Norway, at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, June 15th 1956.

[duchesssoflennox]

Who do you think are the 3 most beautiful granddaughters of Queen Victoria?

Beauty is a subjective matter, and different people may have different preferences and tastes.

I'm sure that all the granddaughters of Queen Victoria are beautiful and unique in their own way... 💓🫶🥺 However, in my opinion, 3 of the most beautiful granddaughters of Queen Victoria are included:

- Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920) was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She married Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, the future King Gustaf VI Adolf, in 1905 and became the Crown Princess of Sweden. She was known for her beauty, intelligence, and charm, and was popular among the Swedish people. She died in 1920, at the age of 38.

- Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (1876–1936) was the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She married twice: first to her cousin Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; and second to another cousin Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia. She was considered a beauty in her youth, with dark hair and blue eyes. She was also interested in music and art, and supported her husband's claim to the Russian throne after the revolution.

- Princess Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938) was the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She married King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1893. She was admired for her beauty, elegance, and style, and was nicknamed "the pearl of the crown" by the Romanian people. She was also a patron of arts and culture, and a humanitarian who helped refugees.

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✵ June 15, 1905 ✵

Princess Margaret of Connaught & Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 29th June 1923

— Friday 29th June Lunched at Lady Cunard’s. The usual potpourri and brilliant chat. She told Lord Balfour he was like God and ‘yet so Christ-like’! Dined with Michael Horby¹ at Shelley House² and we went to Stop Flirting, the popular revue in which two charming little people, Americans, called Fred and Adele Astaire, are the stars.³ Later a most lovely ball at Someries House⁴ ... Lady Zia Wernher’s.⁵ It was successful indeed and starts a new era in entertaining .... I was presented to a tallish gentleman, the Crown Prince of Sweden⁶ ... he is to marry the Lady Louise Mountbatten.⁷ It will be announced next week. What luck for her as she has only about £300 a year and is living in obscurity at Kensington Palace. The Mountbattens after being degraded during the war⁸ to the rank of mere marquises and earls are now much on the ascendant ... they are ever a lucky family, poverty-stricken, they specialise in brilliant marriages. I sat in the garden with Lady Desborough⁹ and found her witty and wily as ever ... does everyone realise, as I do, that she is the character of the age?

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1. Michael Charles St John Hornby (1899-1987), son of St John Hornby, was the founding partner of WH Smith.

2. The Hornby family’s house in Chelsea.

3. Frederick Austerlitz (1899-1987), who took the name Fred Astaire, was an American actor, dancer and singer who achieved worldwide fame in the 1930s in a series of Hollywood musicals renowned for their dance routines; and his sister Adele Marie (1896-1981), with whom he began a vaudeville act as children as 1905, when they changed their name to Astaire. By 1923 they had a Broadway act, which they were touring in London.

4. A Crown State property rented by the Wernhers in Regent’s Park, designed by John Nash and damaged by bombing during the Second World War. It was demolished in 1958.

5. Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Torby (1892-1977), elder daughter of the Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and therefore a great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. She married, in 1917, Harold Wernher (1893-1973), later 3rd Bt. She was granted the rank and precedence of an earl’s daughter after her marriage and stopped using her Russian title, being known as Lady Zia Wernher thereafter.

6. Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf (1882-1973), from 1950 King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. He was the widower of Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), whom he had married in 1905; she was the cousin of King George V, and had died suddenly while eight months pregnant with her sixth child. 7. Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965), previously Princess Louise of Battenberg, married the Crown Prince of Sweden (vide supra) in 1923, and was Queen Consort of Sweden from 1950. She was daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, who became 1st Marquess of Milford Haven when renouncing the German titles in 1917. She had earlier turned down proposals from King Manuel II of Portugal and had been secretly engaged to Prince Christopher of Greece, who was unable to marry her because he had no money; a second engagement was to Stuart Hill, an artist, whom she met while nursing in the Great War and who turned out to be homosexual. 8. There was a protracted debate between Lloyd George, King George V and Lord Stamfordham, the King’s private secretary, in 1917 about the titles to be bestowed on German members of the King’s family who had pledged allegiance to him and had been prepared to forfeit their German ranks. The King was cautioned against granting too many titles and to avoid bestowing any dukedoms. The Mountbatten marquessate was a compromise and their rise would indeed be unstoppable, with the surname of members of the House of Windsor becoming Mountbatten-Windsor in 1960, thirteen years after the marriage of the future Queen Elizabeth II to Philip Mountbatten. 9. Ethel ‘Ettie’ Fane (1867-1952), married in 1887 William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945), 1st Baron Desborough, a former Liberal MP who had joined the Conservatives in 1893 over his disagreement with the second Home Rule Bill for Ireland. Their three sons (qqv) predeceased them, two killed in the Great War and a third in a car crash.

[alexbkrieger13]

Yes they are first cousins, they share the grandparents Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife Princess Margaret of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The Swedish King’s father was their eldest son Gustaf Adolf, who died when our current king one 1 year old. Their only daughter, Ingrid, married Frederick who became Frederick IX of Denmark, thus becoming Queen Ingrid of Denmark. She lived until the year 2000.

As Frederick and Ingrid had three daughters, Denmark changed their law of succession so that Margrethe could inherit the throne. I think she went on a state visit to Sweden in her first year as Queen in 1972-73, visiting her grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf, their reigns overlapped by one year. Sweden was still very old fashioned under Gustaf VI Adolf, regarding for examples which marriages were allowed for royals. They were supposed to marry other royals basically. The succession law was also very old fashioned, allowing only males to inherit the throne.

As our King Carl Gustaf has four older sisters, it would be interesting to know if our law would have been changed to allow his oldest sister Margareta, to become Queen if needed, like in Denmark (probably would not have happened since there were a lot of brothers in the former generation). However when Victoria was born, the government started the process of implementing fully equal succession rights, which took four years. So she was a princess and Carl Philip was born as a crown prince, but when he was less than a year old the law came through and Victoria was made Crown Princess and heir to the throne.

Everything some back to queen Victoria 😅

[princessvictoriamelita]

Royal Wedding on 15 October 1913 at the Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, London (part 2).

The beautiful bride

The bridal couple with the bridesmaids

The bride's attendants were:

Princess Maud, the bride's sister.

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, the bride's maternal first cousin and daughter of King George V.

Princess Mary of Teck and Princess Helena of Teck, daughters of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Teck (brother of Queen Mary).

Princess May of Teck, the bride's maternal second cousin and daughter of Prince Alexander of Teck (brother of Queen Mary) and Princess Alice of Albany.

Photographs of wedding guests and bridesmaids outside a house in Portland Square, taken after the wedding.

The happy couple waving at the crowd.

After the wedding

Source: Most of the photos are from the Royal Collection Trust.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Cute candid of Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden (née Princess of Connaught) with her 5 children, 1917 🤍

From left to right: Prince Sigvard, Prince Bertil, CP Margaret holding Prince Carl Johann, Princess Ingrid, Prince Gustaf Adolf 🖤

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Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Heir today, gone tomorrow?

I've read a lot of theories and speculation about what the ending of the show means, the Revolution song, and what Wilhelm (and Simon) should and should not do in the next season, and it's pretty clear that a lot of you don't really know how a monarchy works, so the point of this post is to go over the actual options and possibilities for Wilhelm with regards to being crown prince and not straight.

Sweden is a constitutional monarchy, which means that the rules of the monarchy are governed by law, by the constitution. Some constitutional monarchies like The Vatican or Malaysia are elective monarchies where each successive monarch is elected somehow. However, Sweden, like all other European monarchies, is a hereditary monarchy, which means that when the current monarch dies or abdicates, the crown passes to the next-in-line heir. Because Sweden is a kingdom, the title of this person is Crown Prince or Crown Princess.

All hereditary monarchies are typically anchored at some ancestor, and the constitution then says that the title of monarch belongs to this person's heirs. For example, in the United Kingdom, its Act of Settlement of 1701 anchored their line of succession on Sophia of Hanover, and since she lived quite long ago, she has thousands of heirs, and all of them are actually in line for the British throne.

In the early 1800's, Swedish king Gustaf IV Adolf sided against France and Russia in the Napoleonic wars, which led to Sweden losing wars and eventually losing the entire eastern half of Sweden, also known as Finland. The king got so unpopular that he was deposed by the nobility and parliament, and the crown went to his uncle, Karl XIII. However, he was childless, so Sweden was now without an heir to the throne.

Through politics and shenanigans and the wish for a strong military leader, parliament finally selected some random dude: Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, a marshal in the French army who had been made prince of Ponte Corvo by Napoleon. The king formally adopted him as his son, and the constitution was changed with the introduction of the 1810 Act of Succession that anchored the Swedish throne to this newly formed House Bernadotte and its male heirs.

Another point that is important to understand is that the monarch of Sweden has no say over the constitution, it is in the hands of parliament, and ultimately, the people of Sweden. And in 1979 Sweden changed its constitution, moving from male-preference primogeniture to absolute primogeniture, stripping the second-born (but first-born son) Prince Carl Philip of his title as crown prince, and giving it to his older sister, now Crown Princess Victoria. Note that this was done even though the king was completely against it, because the monarch doesn't make the rules of the monarchy.

When this change was made, Sweden also re-anchored the order of succession on Carl XVI Gustaf in order to remove the claims of female heirs who were previously passed over, and today the line of succession only contains eleven people: His three children and his eight grand-children.

So what are the rules for getting into and staying in the line of succession?

You have to be an heir to the ancestor it's anchored on. (§1)

You have to be mainline protestant. (§4)

You have to get the consent of both the government and the monarch to marry. (§5)

You can't inherit or be elected as head of state in any other country. (§8)

Those are all the rules according to the text of the constitution. Note that the text uses the Swedish term bröstarvinge in the preamble and efterkommande in the actual law. Bröstarvinge is a legal term which is defined in inheritance law as your biological and adopted children, and efterkommande just means descendant and is not strictly defined. Nowhere in the text does it say that heirs have to be born in wedlock! Or that the monarch has to marry someone of the opposite sex! Or that the monarch even has to be married!

Since the law was written in 1810, the spirit of the law is obviously that princes and princesses of Sweden should marry someone of the opposite sex and have trueborn noble children like good little heterosexual monogamous Christians, and certainly not be in a scandalous same-sex relationship, or father bastards, or adopt children.

But the letter of the law allows it. 😈

So one possible future for Wilhelm is that he marries Simon with consent from the Queen, has kids either through insemination, or surrogacy, or an affair, or some polyamorous throuple, or adoption or whatever, and those kids would be legal heirs to the throne, thus securing the monarchy for another generation. Might make for some funny family photos with King Wilhelm I, his husband Prince Simon, their children, and miss Fredrika, Mother of the Royal Children or something. Or maybe you have to make her a princess at least? I don't know!

I'm not saying this future is without problems, there are definitely people who would oppose it strongly for homophobic reasons, it would trigger a constitutional crisis and national debate on if this is the way the monarchy should and could go, and anti-monarchists would of course seize the opportunity to argue for scrapping the whole thing.

Another possible future for Wilhelm is that he renounces his position in the line of succession, because you can always decline. You can always say no to your royal duty, but doing so means you lose your titles and your royal privileges. If the succession is anchored on Kristina, this would leave Sweden without an heir, also triggering a constitutional crisis that might end the monarchy. Or, in this scenario, you could also allow for searching for an heir among the extended family, making any cousins or second cousins eligible to inherit the throne. For example August. (That would make some lovely season 2 drama!)

A boring possible future is that everyone completely ignores the problem. Wilhelm and Simon keep having a relationship in secret, Wilhelm ascends the throne and just... never marries or has children. Maintaining the image of being straight, while the open secret that he's in a relationship with a guy is never publicly confirmed or addressed, which just kicks the constitutional crisis can down the road a couple of decades.

A fourth possible future is that Wilhelm's coming out immediately triggers a constitutional crisis, and the people of Sweden simply say fuck it and decide to abolish the monarchy. Wilhelm will never be king, Simon will never be prince, but at least they would be completely free to live their lives as they want.

Note that Wilhelm's options are actually pretty limited. Neither he nor his mother the Queen have any power to alter the rules of succession. It all comes down to whether or not parliament, and ultimately the people, accept Wilhelm as he is.

Also note that actual revolution is not really a possible future, no matter how catchy the soundtrack is. Why would the people of Sweden violently overthrow the government because Wilhelm comes out? Every possible future results in a constitutional crisis though, Wilhelm isn't wrong in episode 6 when he asks Simon if he understands what kind of a shitstorm him coming out would result in, because that is the only thing that is certain to happen. And I really hope we get a season 2 and that these scenarios are explored there!

Addendum: Had a great discussion with @waybeforeyourtime in the comments and she pointed out that the word äkta - legitimate - actually appears in the preamble. This is true, but the very long and very flowery and extremely run-on legalese sentence it is part of goes something like this: (heavily paraphrased)

"We, the parliament who are gathered here today, are writing this act of succession for the benefit of the legitimate male heirs of Johan Baptist Julius, Prince of Ponte Corvo, and here are the rules:"

...and then they start listing the paragraphs of the actual law. But they never mention "legitimate" again. The original first paragraph only talks about "heirs" and "sons", and the 1979 version only talks about "male and female descendants".

So it was absolutely the intent of the original lawmakers that only legitimate male heirs conceived in wedlock were meant to inherit, but they didn't actually write it down in the law itself! Maybe if they'd spent less time writing about the "life-fruit" of queens in "delicate condition" - the original second paragraph is a hoot! - they could have spent some time specifying that heirs had to be legitimate, but they didn't!

The letter of the law says one thing, the spirit of the law says another thing, so you can argue the case either way. In the end though, the only thing that matters is what parliament and the people want.

Addendum 2: Following the announcement by the Dutch government that they were cool with a royal same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, the Swedish Royal Court also made a statement saying they're cool with it as well, and that the currently nine-year old Princess Estelle, and all her siblings and cousins, can marry someone of the same sex in the future without losing their place in the line of succession.

The Marshal of the Realm made the exact same argument I made; the text of the constitution doesn't forbid it, the only requirement is that the monarch and the government approves of the marriage.

The question of a legitimate heir in that case is not resolved, but I would assume that Sweden and the Netherlands, and any other European monarchies that follow, would deal with that problem on a case-by-case basis and only if it becomes pertinent.

[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 47th wedding anniversary to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden!

The couple tied the knot on June 19 1976 at the Stockholm Cathedral, having met 4 years prior at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich; Silvia was assigned to be Carl Gustaf's translator during the games. Carl Gustaf acceded to the throne in the following year following the death of his grandfather.

Their engagement was announced on March 12 1976; the King proposed with a 2-carat ring that belonged to his late mother. Their wedding symbolized the first marriage of a reigning Swedish monarch since King Gustav IV Adolf married Princess Frederica of Baden in 1797; and Silvia became Sweden's first queen consort since 1965.

Their chosen date of June 19 is a symbolic date for the Bernadotte family and one in which multiple family members have gotten married on, including Carl Gustaf and Sofia's eldest daughter, Crown Princess Victoria.

They have three children and eight grandchildren: Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland (45), mother of Princess Estelle (11) and Prince Oscar (7); Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (44), father of Prince Alexander (7), Prince Gabriel (5) and Prince Julian (2); and Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, (41), mother of Princess Leonore (9), Prince Nicolas (8) and Princess Adrienne (5).

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50 years as King

1946: The christening of Prince Carl Gustaf. The newly-born Prince is held by his great-grandfather King Gustaf V, his grandfather Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf is sitting next to them and standing watching them is the Prince's father, Hereditary Prince Gustaf Adolf.

1950: Crown Prince Carl Gustaf is held by his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf after the funeral of King Gustaf V.

1965: Crown Prince Carl Gustaf pledging his allegiance and loyalty to the King and the Riksdag at the ceremonial opening of the Riksdag in the Hall of State at the Royal Palace.

"Since my dear ancestor, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends, Gustaf VI Adolf has died, I have succeeded Him as King of our nation. My regnal name shall be Carl XVI Gustaf, my regnal title shall be King of Sweden, and my motto shall be For Sweden – With the Times."

1973: Minister of Justice Lennart Geijer administers the King's Oath to King Carl XVI Gustaf in the Cabinet Meeting Room at the Royal Palace. The photo at the top of this post shows King Carl XVI Gustaf holding his accession speech.

1974: King Carl XVI Gustaf arrives in Åre, Jämtland to begin his Eriksgata (Erik's street). As per tradition, every new monarch does an Eriksgata and tours all of Sweden's counties. At the time of his birth, he was given the title Duke of Jämtland so naturally, the first place he visited on his Eriksgata was his own duchy.

1976: The wedding between King Carl XVI Gustaf and Miss Silvia Sommerlath.

1977: King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia with the newborn Princess Victoria at Solliden Palace.

1979: King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Princess Victoria with the newborn Crown Prince Carl Philip.

1982: King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Carl Philip with the newborn Princess Madeleine.

"I will always remain loyal to The King and to the Riksdag. I will also carefully respect Sweden's constitutional laws."

1995: During a ceremony in the Hall of State at the Royal Palace, Crown Princess Victoria gave a speech in which she promised always to remain loyal to The King and to the Riksdag. On the same day, the Crown Princess received the Royal Order of the Seraphim.

2010: The wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Mr Daniel Westling.

2012: The christening of Princess Estelle. The newly-born Princess is held by her grandfather, King Carl XVI Gustaf, and standing behind them is her mother, Crown Princess Victoria.

2013: The wedding between Princess Madeleine and Mr Christopher O'Neill.

2015: The wedding between Prince Carl Philip and Miss Sofia Hellqvist.

2023: King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates 50 years as King. Since April 26, 2018, he has been the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history.

Most photos are courtesy of the Royal Court of Sweden and the Bernadotte Library's image archive.