Prince Carl (1861-1951) and Princess Ingeborg (1878-1958) of Sweden and Family


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Did Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg never forgive their Son in law King Leopold III to be the driver of the car which killed their Daughter Astrid.
Leopold III was never seen in Sweden between 1935 and 1940. Then He was 10 years exilied and the King met Princess Ingeborg at Princess Josephine Charlotte Weddding in Luxembourg.
The 3 Orphans went to their Grand Parents in Sweden between 1935 en 1940. Marengo send such a nice Picture of them
 
They don't seem to have ever blamed Leopold, likely taking the view it was a horrific freak accident. Given what they wrote themselves:

''When we, Queen Astrid's parents, accompanied our daughter, as your Kings wife, to her new home, nearly nine years ago; her father said that we could leave our beloved child to her husband and to the Belgium people, with joy and entire confidence.

This confidence has never for a single moment been betrayed. Much more, from the moment our dear Astrid set foot on Belgium soil, the whole nation has surrounded her with a love which grew in strength and warmth with the years passed.

Nobody better than us, her parents, know that the people's love and confidence in her desire to give herself entirely to her new country, gave her strength and made her happiness as wife and mother complete, and nobody knows better than us that this happiness remained clear and lasting.

Nobody will wonder therefore that we should consider it a dear duty to bring the Belgian people our deep and heartful thanks for the love which they always surrounded our beloved daughter.

Your dead queen from her Nordic home, loved Belgium. The love of the nation found an echo in her warm young heart. Great is our sorrow, but greater still is our sympathy for your young king and his little children, and our gratitude to him for everything he was for her, and for the great happiness he gave her.

Carl & Ingeborg (signatures)''​

This can also be seen as when he remarried they simply said he was a young man and it was normal that he shouldn't be alone for the rest of his life. If they had been angry at Leopold for that, or anything else, they could have easily just kept silent.

What I'm curious about is if being first cousins once removed themselves, they were as opposed to Märtha marrying her first cousin Olav as Haakon and Maud apparently were?
 
I have this letter in my files.
But we never saw King Leopold III among the Scandinavian Royals from 1935 to 1940!
 
I have this letter in my files.
But we never saw King Leopold III among the Scandinavian Royals from 1935 to 1940!

King Gustaf V on a state visit to Belgium, 8th February 1937.
 
Here's Leopold, no Astrid, with Carl, Ingeborg, Olav, Märtha, his nieces, and more. Judging by the lack of Harald and the copyright, it appears to be 1936. https://images.app.goo.gl/3mdCcAHUrkRHmFKj6

He was not a pariah among the Scandinavians, despite how much that would fit into his later Belgian/Anglo-French narrative. He was not, apparently, seen as Astrid's killer, but rather as her deeply grieving and tormented widower. He let his children go and see their grandparents. If he couldn't go to Sweden himself, it was probably simply too hard and too associated with her.
 
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Also let's not forget Josephine Charlotte's hilarious story about Uncle Goggi, his prosthetic teeth and her decolletage from the first post-war gathering at Fridhem.
 
They don't seem to have ever blamed Leopold, likely taking the view it was a horrific freak accident. Given what they wrote themselves:

''When we, Queen Astrid's parents, accompanied our daughter, as your Kings wife, to her new home, nearly nine years ago; her father said that we could leave our beloved child to her husband and to the Belgium people, with joy and entire confidence.

This confidence has never for a single moment been betrayed. Much more, from the moment our dear Astrid set foot on Belgium soil, the whole nation has surrounded her with a love which grew in strength and warmth with the years passed.

Nobody better than us, her parents, know that the people's love and confidence in her desire to give herself entirely to her new country, gave her strength and made her happiness as wife and mother complete, and nobody knows better than us that this happiness remained clear and lasting.

Nobody will wonder therefore that we should consider it a dear duty to bring the Belgian people our deep and heartful thanks for the love which they always surrounded our beloved daughter.

Your dead queen from her Nordic home, loved Belgium. The love of the nation found an echo in her warm young heart. Great is our sorrow, but greater still is our sympathy for your young king and his little children, and our gratitude to him for everything he was for her, and for the great happiness he gave her.

Carl & Ingeborg (signatures)''​

This can also be seen as when he remarried they simply said he was a young man and it was normal that he shouldn't be alone for the rest of his life. If they had been angry at Leopold for that, or anything else, they could have easily just kept silent.

What I'm curious about is if being first cousins once removed themselves, they were as opposed to Märtha marrying her first cousin Olav as Haakon and Maud apparently were?

What a beautiful, generous letter from poor Astrid's heartbroken parents.

It's little wonder that Astrid grew to became the amazing woman and Princess that she did with parents Iike those as her model.
 
I never heard about it ???

Also let's not forget Josephine Charlotte's hilarious story about Uncle Goggi, his prosthetic teeth and her decolletage from the first post-war gathering at Fridhem.
 
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