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Margaret Victoria, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland1,3,75 was born on 15 Jan 1882 in Bagshot
Park, Windlesham, Surrey, United Kingdom. She was christened on 11
Mar 1882 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom. She
died from an ear infection that developed into erysipelas. on 1 May 1920 in Royal
Palace, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.76
Her ... Margaret Victoria, Princess of Great Britain
& Ireland and Gustavus VI, Adolf King of Sweden R.H. were married on 15 Jun 1905
in Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Gustavus
VI, Adolf King of Sweden R.H.1,3,75
(son of Gustavus V, King of Sweden Royal Highness and Victoria, Princess of Baden
Queen of Sweden) was born on 11 Nov 1882 in Royal Palace, Stockholm, Stockholm,
Sweden. He died on 15 Sep 1973 in Hälsingborg, Malmohus, Sweden.
He was buried after 15 Sep 1973 in Royal Cemetery, Haga Castle Park.
Him NAME Gustav VI Adolf King Of /SWEDEN/
MARR PLAC Royal Chapel, Saint James Palace, London, London, Engl
Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden later became King Gustaf VI Adolf ofj Sweden.
When married to Princess Margeret of Cannaught, he was Crown Prince , Reign:
1950-1973. He was Crown Prince for forty-three years before ascending the throne.
When Gustav died in 1973 the crown passed to his grandson, his eldest son having
been killed in a plane crash in 1947 and his second son being as yet unmarried
and thus unlikely to produce an heir. King Carl XVI ascended the throne of the
Swedes, the Goths and the Wends amid much speculstion that he would prove to
be the last of Sweden's monarchs. Carl has 4 lively and glamorous sisters:
Princesses Margaretha, Birgitta, Desiree and Christine.
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The late king was a very well respected archeoligist. He often went to Greece
and specificaly Italy, where he sometimes took initiative and organised new archelogical
projects. He also took initiative to the swedish cultural institutes in Rome
and Athens. He also had a huge and valuable collection of antique chinese art
and ancient greek coins aswell as modern swedish graphic. Most of his collections
were left to swedsih museums after his death in 1973.
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Margaret Victoria, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland and Gustavus VI,
Adolf King of Sweden R.H. had the following children:
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