Genealogy of the Royal Family of Sweden¹

HRH Prince Carl Duke of Västergötland and his descendants

HRH Oscar Carl Wilhelm Prince of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland
* Palace of the Hereditary Prince, Stockholm, February 27th, 1861
† Hovslagaregatan, Stockholm, October 24th, 1951
President of the Swedish Red Cross (resigned: 1946)

Married:

Royal Chapel, Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, August 27th, 1897:
HRH Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Louise Princess of Denmark
* Charlottenlund Castle near Copenhagen, August 2nd, 1878
† Hovslagaregatan, Stockholm, March 12th, 1958

Children from this marriage:

1. HRH Margaretha Sofia Lovisa Ingeborg Princess of Sweden
   * House "Parkudden", Djurgården, Stockholm, June 25th, 1899
   † Tranemosegård, Kongsted near Fakse, January 4th, 1977

   Married:

   Storkyrkan, Stockholm, May 22nd, 1919:
   HH Axel Chistian Georg Prince of Denmark
   * Yellow Palace, Amaliegade, Copenhagen, August 12th, 1888
   † Bispebjerg Hospital, Bispebjerg, July 14th, 1964
   

2. HRH Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra Princess of Sweden
   * Palace of the Hereditary Prince, Stockholm, March 28th, 1901
   † Rikshospitalet (= State Hospital), Oslo, April 5th, 1954
   

   Married:

   Vor Frelsers Kirke (= St. Saviour's Church), Oslo, March 21st, 1929:
   HM Olav V King of Norway
   (Born as: HH Alexander Edward Christian Frederik Prince of Denmark)
   (Since November 18th, 1905:) HRH Olav Crown Prince of Norway
   * Appleton House, Sandringham near King's Lynn, Norfolk, July 2nd, 1903
   † Kongsseteren near Oslo, January 17th, 1991
   Crown Prince of Norway, November 18th, 1905
   King of Norway, September 21st, 1957 (consecrated: Nidaros Domkirke, Trondheim, June 22nd, 1958)
   

3. HRH Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra Princess of Sweden
   * Palace of the Hereditary Prince, Stockholm, November 17th, 1905
   † (car crash) Küßnacht, August 29th, 1935
   

   Married:

   (civil) Rikssalet, Royal Palace, Stockholm, November 4th and (religious) St. Michiel and St. Goedele Church (today: St. Michiel Cathedral), Brussels, November 10th, 1926:
   HM Leopold III Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel King of the Belgians, Prince of Belgium
   (Born as: HRH Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel Prince of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony)
   (Since December 23rd, 1909:) HRH Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
   (Since the end of World War I:) HRH Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium
   * Hôtel d'Assche, 33 Wetenschapsstraat, Brussels, November 3rd, 1901
   † University Clinic St. Luc, 10 Avenue Hippocrate, Woluwe Saint-Lambert, September 25th, 1983
   Duke of Brabant and Heir to the Throne, December 23rd, 1909
   King of the Belgians, February 23rd, 1934 (abdicated: Throne Room, Royal Palace, Brussels, July 16th, 1951)

4. HRH Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian Prince of Sweden, Duke of Östergötland
   

HRH Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian Prince of Sweden, Duke of Östergötland
(Since July 6th, 1937:) Prince Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian Bernadotte
* Stockholm, January 10th, 1911
Granted the personal title Prince by his brother-in-law, HM King Leopold III of the Belgians, July 6th, 1937

Married:

1. (without consent) Kvillinge Church, Kvillinge, July 6th, 1937:
   Elsa Countess av Rosen
   * Stockholm, February 7th, 1904
   † Stockholm, April 15th, 1991
   (Divorced: Stockholm, January 11th, 1951)
2. Danderyd, Stockholm, November 10th, 1954:
   Anna Margaretha Larsson
   * Danderyd, Stockholm, March 22nd, 1921
   † Churriana, Malaga, September 3rd, 1975
   (Divorced: April 3rd, 1962)
3. Rabat, June 8th, 1978:
   Kristine Rivelsrud
   * Eidsfoss, Hov, April 22nd, 1932

Child from the first marriage:

1. Madeleine Ingeborg Ella Astrid Elsa Countess Bernadotte
   

Madeleine Ingeborg Ella Astrid Elsa Countess Bernadotte
* Stockholm, October 8th, 1938

Married:

1. Stockholm, October 6th, 1962:
   Charles Albert Count Ullens de Schooten Whetnall
   * Cairo, November 16th, 1927
   (Divorced: 1980)
2. Corfu, November 2nd, 1980:
   Nicolaos Nicos Eleftherios Kogévinas
   * Corfu, September 6th, 1918

Children from the first marriage:

1. Jonkvrouwe Marie-Christine Margareta Elsa Ingeborg Ullens de Schooten Whetnall
   * Uccle, March 24th, 1964

   Married:

   (civil) Ixelles, January 6th and (religious) Udaïpur, January 14th, 1996:
   Joël Joseph André Duysan
   * Monaco, April 14th, 1963

   Children from this marriage:

   1. Diégo Duysan
      * May 23rd, 1996
   2. Sarah Duysan
      * Woluwe Saint-Pierre, December 17th, 1997
   3. Nina Duysan
      * April 1st, 2001
2. Jonkheer Jean Charles Antoine Ullens de Schooten Whetnall
   * Uccle, October 6th, 1965

   Married:

   (civil) Ixelles, September 18th and (religious) Vieusart, October 19th, 1996:
   Dorothée Sarah Régine Marie de Pauw
   * Brussels, December 25th, 1971

3. Jonkvrouwe Astrid Marguerite Sophie Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten Whetnall
   * Uccle, March 17th, 1971

   Married:

   (civil) Saint-Gilles, April 19th and (religious) Eglise Saint-Pierre, Wezembeek-Oppem, September 7th, 1996:
   Lionel Alain Christian Jadot
   * Uccle, August 16th, 1969

4. Jonkvrouwe Sophie Pauline Marie Charlotte Ullens de Schooten Whetnall
   * Brussels, February 27th, 1973

Child from the second marriage:

5. Désirée Stéphanie Ursule Kogevinas
   * Uccle, September 16th, 1977
   (Born while her mother was still married to her first husband)
   

Footnotes:

1. With special thanks to Hein Bruins, Verena Denzer, Brigitte Gastel Lloyd, Erik Lamote, Netty Leistra, Claes Mattsson, Paul Theroff and Robert Warholm.

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Last updated: July 15th, 2002.