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He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death. The current king, Carl XVI Gustaf, is Prince Gustaf Adolf's son. The prince was killed on 26 January 1947 in an airplane crash at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf; 11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden .
Carl Gustaf was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandfather, King Gustaf V. He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His father died in January 1947 in an airplane crash in Denmark when Carl Gustaf was nine months old.
King Gustaf Adolf, 83, and Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, 19, walk together in Stockholm. Bettmann - Getty Images. 1966. The Swedish prince attended the Swedish Royal Naval Academy.
Crown Prince Gustav, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson, Prince of Vasa (9 November 1799 – 4/5 August 1877). He served as an officer in the service of the Habsburgs of Austria , and with his wife Princess Louise Amelie of Baden , fathered a son who died in infancy, and a daughter, Carola , the wife of Albert, King of Saxony .
The groom was the eldest son of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden (later King Gustaf V and Queen Victoria) while the bride was the elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn and the niece of King Edward VII. The couple had met in Egypt earlier that year.
King Gustaf V (1858–1950), né Prince of Sweden and Norway King Gustaf VI Adolf (1882–1973), né Prince of Sweden and Norway Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906–1947) King Carl XVI Gustaf (born 1946) Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland (b. 1977) Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland (b. 2012)
Wedding portrait from 1923 of Lady Louise and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. In 1923, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, having been for three years the widower of Louise's mother's cousin Princess Margaret of Connaught, paid a visit to London and, to Louise's surprise, began to court her. [2]