Bertil of Sweden
Bertil Oskar Carl Gustaf Eugén, Prince of Sweden and Duke of Halland (born February 28, 1912 in Stockholm , † January 5, 1997 there ) was the third son of King Gustav VI. Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Margaret of Connaught .
Life
When Prince Bertil was working as a naval attaché at the Swedish Embassy in London in 1943 , he met the married Lilian Craig , with whom he soon began a love affair. When his older brother, Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf, died in 1947, he left behind a son, Carl Gustaf (* 1946) , who was only one year old . Since other candidates had to give up their places in the line of succession because of inappropriate connections , only Bertil and his nephew Carl Gustaf were able to sit on the throne. Bertil decided not to marry his middle-class girlfriend Lillian May Davies from Wales , as this would have cost him his place in the line of succession. It was only after his nephew ascended the throne in 1973 and married Silvia Sommerlath in June 1976 that Bertil asked permission to marry Lilian. After the King had granted him this, Lilian and Bertil married on December 7, 1976 in the palace church of Drottningholm in the presence of the King and Queen.
With this legitimacy, Bertil was still heir to the throne and regent when the king was prevented from doing so. Carl XVI. Gustaf's first child Victoria was born in 1977, but was not admitted to the throne as a girl. It was not until 1979 that Bertil was succeeded as heir to the throne by Carl Gustaf's second child, Carl Philip . He remained the king's deputy because the heir to the throne was still a minor. In 1980 Victoria became heir to the throne through a new Succession Act . Until his death, Bertil Bernadotte retained the right of succession to the throne, subordinate to Carl XVI. Gustav's descendants.
Bertil was very popular in Sweden. Out of consideration for his aristocratic status, he practiced his hobby as a racing car driver in the 1930s under the pseudonym Monsieur Adrian . The prince was a brother of Queen Ingrid of Denmark (nee Princess Ingrid of Sweden), mother of the current Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Bertil was the Grand Master of Swedish Freemasonry from 1973 to 1997 . The Swedish teaching system , which is mainly practiced in the Scandinavian countries, is also worked on in Germany by the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany .
ancestors
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Duke |
Grand Duke |
Kaiser |
Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn |
Prince Carl of Prussia |
Duke Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau |
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Grand Duke |
Prince |
Prince |
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Bertil of Sweden |
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literature
- Lars Elgklou: Bernadotte. Histories - och historier - om en familj. Askild & Kärnekull, Stockholm 1978 ISBN 91-7008-882-9 .
- Erik Lindorm: Gustaf V och hans tid. En bokfilm. 1907-1918 . 1979, ISBN 91-46-13376-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prince Bertil (1912-97) . Swedish Royal Court. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved on January 9, 2018.
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| SURNAME | Bertil of Sweden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertil Bernadotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish prince |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1997 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |