Swedish Queens from the Past

[Josefine]

Queen Victoria of Sweden

[Dennism]

Here's a page with a little bit of information on a lot of Swedish Queens:

http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/queens/



And when I couldn't find the word "porcuration" in my dictionary. I did a Yahoo search and one of the searches gave me the link that I just posted!

porcuration doesn't mean anything unless if it's a hand word for the process in which you cure a pig! But the word should be procuration which means by power of attorney or by prozy. That means in this case, Josefina wasn't at her wedding or the groom wasn't there!

[Josefine]

thank you so much for the link

[Lyle]

Why is it so hard to find information about Queen Louise, Gustaf VI's second wife? If anyone knows where to get information about her, that would be awesome.

[EmpressRouge]

Originally Posted by Lyle

Why is it so hard to find information about Queen Louise, Gustaf VI's second wife? If anyone knows where to get information about her, that would be awesome.

Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965) was born HSH Princess Louise of Battenberg, the daughter of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg. Her father was a son of the morganatic marriage his father, HRH Prince Alexander of Hesse made with Countess Julie von Hauke, later created HSH Princess of Battenberg. Louise's mother was born HRH Princess Victoria of Hesse, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his wife Princess Alice of Great Britain, second daughter of Queen Victoria. Louise's parents were first cousins once removed.

After World War I, the Battenbergs, due to anti-German sentiment in Britain, anglicanized their names to Mountbatten and gave up their German princely titles for British peerages. Thus, TSH Prince and Princess Louis became The Most Honourable Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven, and Princess Louise became Lady Louise Mountbatten.

Louise was engaged to an artist, Alexander Stuart-Hill who was nicknamed Shakespeare by the Mountbattens. Her family disapproved of “Shakespeare,” and Louise eventually broke off the engagement after learning that her fiancé was homosexual.

In 1923 at age thirty-four (an “old maid” by standards of the day), Lady Louise Mountbatten became Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden’s second wife. Tragically, she gave birth to a stillborn child in 1925. The couple would not be able to have any more children. The couple became king and queen in 1950; Gustav was nearly seventy when he took to the throne. Queen Louise died in 1965 and King Gustav VI Adolf died in 1973, succeeded by his grandson, Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden’s current monarch.

Louise was closely related to many other famous royals of the 20th century. King Gustav’s first wife, Crown Princess Margaret, whom he married in 1905 and died in 1920, was Louise’s first cousin once removed thus also a descendent of Queen Victoria. Born Princess Margaret of Connaught, she was a daughter of Queen Victoria’s third son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. Gustav and Margaret’s only daughter (Louise’s stepdaughter) Ingrid became the Queen of Denmark. Ingrid named her eldest daughter, Denmark’s current monarch Margrethe, after her mother. Both Margaret/Margrethe share the same nickname “Daisy.”

Two of Louise’s Hesse aunts (her mother, Victoria’s younger sisters) both married into the Russian imperial family. Elisabeth Feodorovna (Ella) married Tsar Nicholas II’s uncle and became the Grand Duchess Sergei. Victoria and Ella’s youngest sister, Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix) married Tsar Nicholas II and became Russia’s tragic last Tsarina.

Louise’s uncle Prince Henry of Battenberg married Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter. Henry and Beatrice’s only daughter, Victoria Eugenie “Ena” married King Alfonso XIII of Spain and was the defacto Queen of Spain until the Spanish royal family went into exile in 1931. Ena was Louise’s cousin twice-over: on their Battenberg fathers’ side, they were first cousins; on their mother’s side they were first cousins once removed. Ena’s grandson is the current Spanish monarch, King Juan Carlos I.

Louise had two famous siblings of her own. Her elder sister, Alice of Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece, was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is Queen Elizabeth II’s husband. Louise’s younger brother was Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a British naval hero (their father was also active in the British navy) and last Viceroy of India. He was Prince Charles’ mentor until his tragic death in 1979 as a result of an IRA bomb.

Hope this helps!

[pdas1201]

Some pics of Queen Louise (earlier Lady Louise Mountbatten)

1. as a baby with her parents and older sister, Princess Alice (later Princess Andrew of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh)
2. as a young girl (in the middle) with her parents and siblings, Princess Alice and Prince George
3. as a young woman
4-5. wedding pics
6-7. Crown Princess of Sweden
8-9. Queen of Sweden

[Josefine]

i do not know why i found a book about her in swedish but thats it

[Furienna]

Let me just say then, that Victoria is said to have been unfaithful too. It was a weird marriage. It was happy in the beginning, it seems, but it just got worse and worse. Victoria spending a lot of time abroad didn't help either. Gustav V's "lover" was also a compulsive liar. We simply don't know what went on a century ago.