Swedish Queens from the Past

[Josefine]

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[Josefine]

Portrait of Queen Louise
Queen Louise of Sweden and Norway,

Date Photographed July 21, 1922




Queen Lovisa
Lovisa was the daughter of prince Fredrik of Netherlands and Louise of Preussen. 1850 she married with crownprince Carl of Sweden and Norway. At Oscar I:s death in 1859 Carl and Lovisa became King and queen of Sweden. The following year Lovisa was crowned queen in Stockholm and Trondheim.

Lovisa died in 1871 at the 30:th of Mar. As she was a woman of the people in heart and she was patron of the poor she was much loved by the people.

She founded and protected crownprincess Lovisas hospital for children, femöresföreningen (a society meant to found childrens homes in the north part of the country), Lotten Wennbergs fond, Queen Lovisas understödsförening, Allmänna institutet för dövstumma och blinda, tysta skolan, and many, many more institutions. She also founded similar institutions in Norway.

[Josefine]

Queen Victoria of Sweden
Original caption: Queen of Sweden Seriously Ill. Her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria of Sweden, who lies dangerously ill at her ancestral home on Lake Constance here. The Queen has been abed for two months suffering with bronchitis and fever. The Queen is 67 years of age.






Sweden's King Gustaf and Queen Victoria


Queen Victoria

Victoria was the daughter of great duke of Fredrik of Baden. and Louise of Preussen. 1881 she married crownprince Gustaf of Sweden in Karlsruhe. At Oscar II death 1907 Gustav V and Victoria king and queen of Sweden.

As she had a poor health she often had to get out of Stockholm. 1906-1919 she lived three to four months each year at Solliden, Öland. After 1919 she spent long periods on Capri. During the first worldwar she once was at the castle in Karlsruhe when it was attacked by french bombers.

At the end of the war she was forced to flee Karlsruhe and eventually she ended up at the castle of Mainau which she became the owner of after her parents deaths. 1919 She returned to Sweden where she kept herself occupied by her interest in art and literature.

1926 she moved to Villa Svezia in Rome where she died in 1931. Queen Victoria was a talented person in art and Literature ad she hade a high work moral. At the breakout of war 1914 she founded the queen vicotira centralkommité in order to organize the work to help the suffering people. She also founded Drottning Victorias Vilohem near soliden. She worked for the red cross and for the defense of Sweden.

She gave birth to three sons: Gustaf Adolf, Vilhelm and Erik.

[pdas1201]

Originally Posted by Josefine

Sweden's King Gustaf and Queen Victoria

1-2. as a young couple
3. as a young woman

[Daneborn]

I absolutely love this thread about queens from the past.

The pictures of Desideria and Josefina are truly epic. From a different time and place.

I just wanna share a few aha's that I've had while I read about these queens:

The recent queen Louise (who died 1965) and queen Lovisa (the princess from the Netherlands in the late 19th century), neither of these two brought any blood into the Swedish royal veins.

Lovisa did have a daughter, but she married the Danish crown prince and thereby she ensured Dutch blood into the Danish royal veins.

I think I can see the Lovisa look in some of the Danish princes / princesses.
(prince Ingolf and princess Elisabeth).

Queen Victoria, she must have had a hard marriage. According to Josefine's text she didn't spend a lot of time in Stockholm with the King. I can see the explanation being that, as it's often said, King Gustav 5 Adolf was a homosexual. The court was even extorted for money by the King's lover. http://historiska-personer.nu/min-s/p5f3d83e0.html

I hope they will give us a rerun of the TV-series that was made some years ago about all these queens.

[Josefine]

Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway





Queen Sofia

Sofia was the daughter of duke Wilhelm of Nassau and Pauline of Württemberg, The 6:th of Jun. 1857 she married in Biebrich with Crownprince Oscar of Sweden. 1872 she became queen of Sweden and Norway whereafter the crowning took place the following year.

Queen Sofia was strong person with religious interest. 1877 she went under a large operation which forced her to withdraw from the public life for some time. 1907 she became a widow and 1913 she died on the 30:th Dec. at Stockholms castle.

She spent a lot of effort on charity, she founded 'hemmet för frigivna kvinnor', Sophiahemmet and Kung Oscars och Sofias Guldbröllopshem. She got four children, the sons Gustaf, Oscar, Carl and Eugen.

[pdas1201]

Originally Posted by Josefine

Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway

Queen Sophia with her husband and children

[Dennism]

Great photos, pdas1201. Where did you get them from?

[pdas1201]

Originally Posted by Dennism

Great photos, pdas1201. Where did you get them from?

Well, Denny, the pics of young Louise are from "Advice to my Granddaughter." Older Louise are CDV's I found at ebay (of course, didn't win any:().

Young Sofia and Gustav are from Corbis and lots of "googling."

Sophia and Oscar are from the Royalty Digest.

[Dennism]

Excellent photo-hunting there. Too bad you didn´t win on eBay. Better luck next time. :)

[Josefine]

Bumping up this thread....
Giving you all some Swedish history

[Josefine]

Queen Josefina

Josefina was the daughter of prince Eugéne de Beauharnais, vice king of Italy and Augusta Amalia of Bayern.

1822 she was bethrotted to Crownprince Oscar of Sweden and Norway in Eichstedt, Germany. The following year she married him par porcuration in München. Soon thereafter Josefina wnet to Stockholm to get crowned queen of Sweden and Norway.

Josefina became a widow in 1859 and she died in 1876, 7:th of Jun.

She founded Josefina hemmet (for nursing of poor and handicapped in the catholic church), the institution for nursing of the 'defenseless and fallen', the institution for education of women and the society for 'tender and moral maternity wellfare'. She got five children, Carl, Gustaf, Oscar, Eugénie and August. The marriage between Josefina and Oscar seems to have beeen a bit stormy now and then as Oscar had his mistress Emilie Hägqvist.

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by Josefine

Queen Josefina

Josefina was the daughter of prince Eugéne de Beauharnais, vice king of Italy and Augusta Amalia of Bayern.

1822 she was bethrotted to Crownprince Oscar of Sweden and Norway in Eichstedt, Germany. The following year she married him par porcuration in München. Soon thereafter Josefina wnet to Stockholm to get crowned queen of Sweden and Norway.

Josefina became a widow in 1859 and she died in 1876, 7:th of Jun.

She founded Josefina hemmet (for nursing of poor and handicapped in the catholic church), the institution for nursing of the 'defenseless and fallen', the institution for education of women and the society for 'tender and moral maternity wellfare'. She got five children, Carl, Gustaf, Oscar, Eugénie and August. The marriage between Josefina and Oscar seems to have beeen a bit stormy now and then as Oscar had his mistress Emilie Hägqvist.

On March 14, 2007, it is 200 years since her birth.

[Emeralds and Opals]

http://www.thelocal.se/19468/20090515/

"Centuries-old royal desk uncovered in Sweden."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Eleonora_of_Holstein-Gottorp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Palace

http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/theroyalpalaces/theroyalpalace



Courtesy of Panorama's of the World website.

http://www.earthpano.com/sweden/stockholm/royalcastle/royalcastle1.htm

[Josefine]

Queen Josefina


full name before marrige to King Oskar I
Josephine Maximiliana Eugenia Napoleona av Leuchtenberg

Children;
Karl XV Ludvig Eugén Bernadotte (1826 - 1872)
Frans Gustav Bernadotte (1827 - 1852)
Oscar II Fredrik Bernadotte (1829 - 1907)
Charlotta Eugénie Augusta Amalia Albertina Bernadotte (1830 - 1889)
Nicolaus August Bernadotte (1831 - 1873)

[thissal]

Thanks a million Josefine. This thread is great.

"The marriage between Josefina and Oscar seems to have beeen a bit stormy now and then as Oscar had his mistress Emilie Hägqvist. "

That's too bad. She looks like such a sweet and good person in her pictures.

[thissal]

"The following year she married him par porcuration in München."

What does "par porcuration" mean?

[Josefine]

Queen Louise
I think she was crown princess when the picture was taken

[Josefine]

I´ll try to find some more facts and pictures of these queens

[Josefine]

Queen Victoria