Princess Sibylla Of Sweden
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sibylla Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora; 18 January 1908 – 28 November 1972) was a member of the Swedish royal family and the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. Born into the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sibylla was the daughter of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Charles Edward, the last duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She became a Swedish princess when she married Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten in 1932. She thus had the prospect of one day becoming queen, but the prince was killed in an 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 Copenhagen disaster, airplane crash in 1947 and did not live to ascend the Swedish throne. Her son became king the year after her death. Early life Princess Sibylla (then Sibylle) was born on 18 January 1908 at Schloss Friedenstein in the city of Gotha, one of the two capital city, capitals in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in central German Empire, Germany. She was the elde ...
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Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke Of Västerbotten
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince, who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. 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. Early life Gustaf Adolf was born in Stockholm on 22 April 1906 as the eldest son of the then Prince Gustaf Adolf and his first wife Princess Margaret. He was known by his last given name, Edmund, in the family. Gustaf Adolf passed ''studentexamen'' at Stockholm Palace in 1925 and attended the Cavalry Officer Candidate School (''Kavalleriets officersaspirantskola'', KavOAS) in Eksjö the following year and in 1926–1927 the Royal Mi ...
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