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On This Day

Posted by Karen on November 3, 2024, 5:47 am

1923 - Lady Louise Mountbatten married Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. They became King and Queen of Sweden in 1950. Gustaf Adolf became king a few days before his 68th birthday. King Charles III is the Grand Nephew of Queen Louise.

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Posted by Carolyn on November 3, 2024, 10:00 am, in reply to "On This Day"

My favorite story about Louise is that she was often in London shopping. She carried a card in her handbag that said she was the Queen of Sweden.

A minor Royal had been visiting a city in Europe and collapsed on the street. No one knew who he was at first. She didn't want that to happen to her.

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Posted by Hollie24 on November 3, 2024, 1:45 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

Lady Louise was in utter shock when Gustaf Adolf proposed to her. She'd spent a lot of time with him,but it never occurred to her that he'd be interested her. Alice had also said that marriage to a King would be her worst nightmare. Fortunately she changed her mind!

Theirs was a true love match and they had a happy marriage.

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Posted by Hollie24 on November 3, 2024, 4:16 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

Louise, not Alice!

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Posted by José on November 3, 2024, 8:35 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

Louise was indeed very much against marrying a king or crown prince.

She had been one of King Manuel II's possible brides, when an english marriage was the best political option, but she discarded immediately such match.

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Posted by Nellie on November 3, 2024, 2:12 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

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Posted by Nellie on November 3, 2024, 2:15 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

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Posted by karenl on November 3, 2024, 7:17 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

It was a very happy marriage. In the early part of the marriage Louise had to put up with some resentment from Gustav Adolf's children, especially Ingrid. As the years went on, the resentments diminished, I think the children witnessed their father's happiness with Louise and she never tried to "replace" their mother.

An aside: It was King Frederik VIII who collapsed while taking an evening stroll in Hamberg while on they're way back to Copenhagen. It's true that HM had no ID on his person and it was some days before his family were able to ID him.

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Posted by karenl on November 3, 2024, 7:50 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

*Hamburg

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Posted by Hollie24 on November 3, 2024, 7:56 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

Louise eventually became very close to her stepsons, especially Bertil and Carl. Ingrid was very close to her mother, so it took her much longer to appreciate Louise. I think it was only after Margrethe's birth that Ingrid and Louise became close.

IIRC there was a problem with Louise not being sufficiently Royal enough to marry Carl Gustav, with some Swedish politicians raising the issue with the British government. Parliament declared that yeppers, Louise was Royal enough, and they got married.

I think LOuise gets overshadowed by her sister Alice,but her life was almost as unconventional as Alice's in many ways.

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Posted by JohnW on November 3, 2024, 11:24 pm, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

The problem with her status was that, as she had been, since 1917, Lady Louise Mountbatten, she might be considered to be the daughter of a 'private man', marriage to which was prohibited for Swedish Princes.

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Posted by Carolyn on November 4, 2024, 7:00 am, in reply to "Re: On This Day"

That is a wonderful photo. I'd never see them together like that. Thanks for posting it, Nellie.

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