* 1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.

Gustaf and Margaret fell in love at first sight.

Margaret had certainly fallen completely in love with Gustaf.

The marriage between Margaret and Gustaf Adolf is described as a happy love match.

She was born in Stockholm the third child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Her sister was Princess Margaret of Connaught, first wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.

He was the second son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught and was originally known as Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland, but lost his royal titles in 1934 when he married a commoner.

In 1905, Oscar II's grandchild Prince Gustaf Adolf, future King Gustaf VI Adolf, and his wife, crown princess Margaret received the palace as a wedding gift.

Gustaf Adolf was the eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden ( later Gustaf VI Adolf ) and Princess Margaret of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

If he had married Silvia during the reign of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf, he would have lost his position as heir-apparent to the Swedish throne.

In 20th century, his distant direct descendant, Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married the Hereditary Prince Gustaf Adolf, and with Sibylla's son, King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Sten Sture the younger's blood returned to the Swedish throne.

* Magdalena Katharina Stenbock ( 1652 – 1676 ), married Gustaf Mauritz Lewenhaupt

* Beata Margareta Stenbock ( 1661 – 1735 ), married count Gustaf Douglas ( 1648 – 1705 )

* Count Erich Gustaf Stenbock ( 1662 – 1722 ), married Countess Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie ( 1661 – 1708 )

Axel Julius De la Gardie and countess Christina Catharine De la Gardie ( 1632 – 1704 ), who married Gustaf Otto Stenbock and was mother of Magnus Stenbock.

He married in 1863 Anna Maria Mannerheim, the aunt of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

Her distant direct descendant, Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and with Sibylla's son, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Gyllenstierna's blood returned to the Swedish throne.

When Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden married Silvia Sommerlath in 1976, he discontinued the established norm that Swedish princes must marry royalty in order to keep the right to inherit the throne and their royal titles.

# Maria Sofia De la Gardie ( 1627 – 1694 ), married Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, nephew of regent Axel Oxenstierna.

# Christina Catharine De la Gardie ( 1632 – 1704 ), married Gustaf Otto Stenbock, mother of Magnus Stenbock.

* Crown Prince Gustaf, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa ( 9 November 1799 – 1877 ); married Princess Louise Amelie of Baden.

*** Princess Louise of Battenberg ( 1889 – 1965 ), renounced her title in 1917 to become Lady Louise Mountbatten, married the future King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1923.

Prince Louis's second daughter Princess Louise of Battenberg become Queen Consort of Sweden as she married King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1923 and his younger son Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma served as the last Viceroy of India.

He married the present King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia on 19 June 1976 in Storkyrkan in Stockholm.

Crown Princess Victoria, oldest daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, was married to Daniel Westling on 19 June, 2010 at the Storkyrkan, the same date on which her parents were also married in Storkyrkan in 1976.

On 19 October in Coburg, Sibylla married her second cousin Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten in a civil ceremony, followed by a church wedding the day after.

On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.

Following the adoption of the 1974 Instrument of Government on January 1, 1975, the Swedish Monarch ( King Carl XVI Gustaf since September 15, 1973 ) is no longer vested any executive authority at all, and is neither part of the executive branch nor of the legislature.

However, on 10 July 1941, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim issued an Order of the Day that contained a formulation understood internationally as a Finnish territorial interest in Russian Karelia.

The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Its official dedication took place on 1 July 2000, with Queen Margrethe II, and King Carl XVI Gustaf as the host and hostess of the ceremony.

In May 1969, Carl Gustaf von Rosen formed a squadron of five light aircraft known as the Babies of Biafra, which attacked and destroyed Nigerian jet aircraft on the ground and delivered food aid.

Another of Gustaf V's objectives with this three-king conference was to dispel suspicions that he wanted to bring Sweden into the war on Germany's side.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Gustaf V tried to write a private letter to Hitler thanking him for taking care of the " Bolshevik pest " and congratulating him on his " already achieved victories ".

During his reign, Gustaf was often seen playing on the Riviera.

After a reign of nearly 43 years, King Gustaf V died in Stockholm, due to flu complications on 29 October 1950.

Examples for the romantic heroization of Charles XII in several genres are Esaias Tegnér's song Kung Karl, den unge hjälte ( 1818 ), Johan Peter Molin's statue in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården ( unveiled on 30 November 1868, the 150th anniversary of Charles ' death ) and Gustaf Cederström's painting Karl XII: s likfärd (" Funeral procession of Charles XII ", 1878 ).

After the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf on 15 September 1973, Carl XVI Gustav succeeded to the throne.

She became the first wife of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his Duchess of Scania on 15 June 1905.

Margareta's, Gustaf Adolf's and Louise's grave on Karlsborg Island in Solna, Sweden

* King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden celebrated his Silver Jubilee on 15 September 1998.

* June 18 – ABBA perform " Dancing Queen " for the first time on Swedish television in Stockholm on the eve of the wedding of King Carl XVI Gustaf to Silvia Sommerlath.

He was elected by Parliament as President of the Republic on July 25, 1919, defeating Carl Gustaf Mannerheim ( the candidate supported by the National Coalition and Swedish People's parties ) by 143 votes to 50 ( see, for example, Sakari Virkkunen, " Finland's Presidents I ," Helsinki, 1994 ).

Mann's brother-in-law, the actor Gustaf Gründgens, was so offended by the main character Hendrik Höfgen ( based on Gründgens himself ) that the novel was banned after a libel case.

The article reported the discovery of a derelict ship in the Pacific Ocean with only one survivor-Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, second mate on the schooner Emma, which sailed from Auckland, New Zealand.

King Gustaf V was petitioned on 6 May 1909 following the publication of preliminary plans for the Stockholm bid that the expected cost of hosting the Games would be 415, 000 Kronor (£ 23, 050 or $ 115, 250 ).

Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf addressed the King on behalf of the Swedish Olympic Association.

The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the ice of lake Mälaren. Painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist ( 1880 ).

Admiral Burke, himself of Swedish descent, was the senior representative of the United States of America on the funeral of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1973.