page_title: Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Coburger Fürstenhochzeit Die Koburger Fürstenhochzeit. Vortext siehe Bild Nr.25477 U.B.z. das junge Paar mit den Eltern bei den Polterabend-Festlichkeiten, von links nach rechts: Herzog von Koburg, Kronprinz von Schweden, Erbprinz Gustaf Adolf und seine junge Gattin, Prinzessin Sibylle, Kronprinzessin von Schweden und Herzogin von Koburg. Abgebildete Personen: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Karl-Eduard von: 1884-1954, Herzog, Präsident des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes, Deutschland Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Most probably at the Veste Coburg. (See discussion here, in Swedish). Deutsch: Das Bild wurde auf der Veste aufgenommen, wohl im Kongresssaal (im Carl-Eduard-Bau), wo der sogenannte Polterabend stattgefunden hat.
context_page_description: Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the mother of the current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. A member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sibylla became a Swedish princess by marrying Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, who did not live to ascend the Swedish throne.
context_section_description: In November 1931, Sibylla was in London to attend the wedding of her paternal first cousin Lady May Abel Smith as a bridesmaid. One of the other bridesmaids was her second cousin Princess Ingrid of Sweden, who introduced Sibylla to her brother, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten. Their engagement was announced at Callenberg Castle in Coburg 16 June 1932.
   On 19 October in Coburg, Sibylla married her second cousin Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, in a civil ceremony, followed by a church wedding the day after. Gustaf Adolf was the eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden (later Gustaf VI Adolf) and Princess Margaret of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Both Sibylla and Gustaf Adolf were great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. Sibylla never became Crown Princess herself since her husband died before his father and his grandfather King Gustav V.
  The wedding was celebrated in an official manner in Coburg, as President Hindenburg had ordered that no honours should be spared. However, as the city of Coburg was dominated by the Nazi party at the time, the celebrations there were Nazi influenced, which made a very bad impression in Sweden. The ceremony took place at St. Moriz. The couple spent their honeymoon in Italy before arriving in Stockholm on 25 November 1932.
  The couple had five children:
  Princess Margaretha (born 31 October 1934) married John Ambler on 30 June 1964 and is his widow. They had three children.
  Princess Birgitta (born 19 January 1937) married Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern on 25 May 1961 and is his widow. They had three children.
  Princess Désirée (born 2 June 1938) married Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld on 5 June 1964 and is his widow. They had three children.
  Princess Christina (born 3 August 1943) married Tord Magnuson on 15 June 1974. They have three sons.
  Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 30 April 1946) married Silvia Sommerlath on 19 June 1976. They have three children.
caption: Wedding of Princess Sibylla and Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden in Coburg in 1932.
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