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HM The King. CARL GUSTAF Folke Hubertus, King of Sweden, born on 30 April, 1946, ascended the throne on 15 September 1973. Carl XVI Gustaf is the seventh king of the House of Bernadotte and the longest reigning monarch in Swedish history. The King's motto is: “For Sweden – With the times”.
Swedish monarchy – the Royal Family in Sweden: the Swedish King, the Queen, the Crown Princess, her siblings and and all their royal spouses and children. Meet the Bernadottes. Get to know every member of the royal family of Sweden; The complete succession to the throne in the bottom of this page; What Swedes think about about the royal family
Retrieved 22 December 2013. King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia have three children: Crown Princess Victoria, born on 14 July 1977, Prince Carl Philip, born on 13 May 1979 and Princess Madeleine, born on 10 June 1982. Under the Order of Succession introduced in 1980 by the Swedish Parliament, the throne passes to the eldest child.
Crown Princess Victoria (born July 14, 1977, Stockholm, Sweden) is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia. If crowned, Victoria would become the first reigning queen in the house of Bernadotte, the royal family of Sweden since 1818. Although Victoria was firstborn, her younger brother ...
Sweden is the only country where the predominant colour of houses is red. Sweden - Politics, Economy, Welfare: Sweden is a constitutional monarchy. The constitution, dating from 1809 and revised in 1975, is based on the following four fundamental laws: the Instrument of Government, the Act of Succession, the Freedom of the Press Act, and the ...
Monarchy of Sweden. The monarchy of Sweden is the monarchical head of state of Sweden. [3] Sweden is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. [4] Sweden was originally an elective monarchy, it became an hereditary monarchy in the 16th century during the rule of Gustav Vasa. [5]
The House of Bernadotte [a] is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden. It was also the royal family of Norway between 1818 and 1905. Its founder was born in Pau in southern France as Jean Bernadotte. Bernadotte, who had been made a General of Division and Minister of War for his service in the ...
