Gustaf VI Adolf

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death. 

Career
Gustaf VI was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden.Irene Scobbie, The A to Z of Sweden (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010), p. 84 Before becoming king he had been Crown Prince of Sweden. During this long period of time he became a scholar and an archaeologist.Anna Mosesson, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Stockholm (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2012), p. 78 He was also a well regarded expert on Chinese art. At his death he left his large collection of Chinese art to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet) in Stockholm, Sweden. In World War II Gustaf, as Crown Prince, spoke out publicly against sending Jews to Auschwitz. This was after the public learned of the extermination camps in Germany.Martin Gilbert, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), p. 388 He was the last king to rule under a Constitutional Monarchy with any power. Gustaf VI died in 1973.Abdul Karim Bangura, Sweden Vs Apartheid: Putting Morality Ahead of Profit (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004), p. 7 His grandson, Carl XVI Gustaf, succeeded him as king.

Family
Gustaf VI married Margaret of Connaught in 1905. She died in 1920. Together they had four sons and one daughter:

 Gustaf Adolf. He died in 1947 in an airplane accident.
 Sigvard.
 Bertil.
 Carl Johan.
 Ingrid, married King Frederik IV of Denmark.

Gustaf VI married as his second wife, Lady Louise Mountbatten, in 1923.Barry Jones, Dictionary of World Biography (Acton, A.C.T: ANU E Press, 2013), p. 359 She died in 1965.

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Other websites
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