How Swedish Are The Bernadottes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2023
- It was the year 1810 - Europe found itself fighting in the ongoing Napoleonic wars - when Charles August, the adopted Crown Prince of Sweden suddenly died after falling from his horse. Just a few months shy of his death he was adopted by Swedish King Charles XIII. Charles XIII had been King of Sweden since June 6th 1809 and despite being married for 35 years he had no legitimate heirs. When the Crown Prince then died in 1810 the search for a new heir began.
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One reason for electing Marshal Bernadotte as Crown Prince is that the Swedes remembered that he had been kind to Swedish prisoners of war. Oscar II had to be the only king to ever have a garden hose turned on him. He went to go after the children but was shocked to find that he had been soaked by Tsar Alexander III (who thought it was hilarious). Excellent video.
Nice work! But you forget that our current king, Carl XVI Gustaf's paternal grandmother was princess Margareth of Connaught. Her father was one of Queen Victoria's sons and her mother was Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia. Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the mother of our present King, was the daughter of Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was the son of Prince Leopold of Albany who was another of Queen Victoria's sons. Charles Edward's wife and our current king's maternal grandmother was Victoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. So there are many Germans (as in all royal houses, not least the British) but also a little British.
I don’t think there is British blood.Because as Queen Victoria and her husband are both 100% German .Either her parent ,Her grandparent ,Her great grandparents,Her great grandparents are all have German blood .There is also no British blood in British royal family until George vi married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a daughter of British nobility family. Your king are Swedish with German descent
@@user-gu8dv9ty2q Queen Victoria was not 100% german, she was a Hanoverian, Charles I sister was a direct ancestor, the Stuarts were scottish
and one of our late Queen's ancestors was King Alfred the Great who was English
and we have English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish blood
Why did royals worry about keeping the bloodline pure and then just put a non royal on the throne?
because even to this day, royal feel "above" everyone else. It's like often how Managers/CEO's feel they are better than the mongrels who work for them. It's also the same way why many don't like mixed raced people as they are considered low lvl people and you don't mix with them. I'm sure in some the past, they felt if you put a non-royal who had no training (though often only the eldest son had any education for the thrown) they'd do what Germany did in either WW or France during their last monarch. Or what has happened to Greece not wanting to take sides during WW1 and upseting both sides. Sure they felt a royal wouldn't do this, though, not to say it has never happened. Could also be because that is what parliment wanted. They didn't want a "commoner" who knew nothing on the thrown.
It was stupid to get rid of the king and then get a new one instead of making Sweden a republic, but that's everything that's wrong with Sweden in a nutshell.
Democracy and monarchy is very popular in Sweden and something we are very proud of!
Intressant. Jag är svensk och inte ett dugg stolt över varken monarkin eller "demokratin", men de flesta behöver intala sig sånt där, antar jag.
The more obvious question was why didn’t Sweden select someone from an old Swedish family ?! 😊
Victoria of Baden, wife of Gustav 5th and mother of Gustav 6th Adolf, was on her mother's side a descendant of the older Swedish dynasty. She was a great-granddaughter of Gustav 4th, king of Sweden 1792-1809, who was at least partly Swedish. If we - for the sake of simplicity - counts him as 100 % Swedish, Victoria would be 12.5 % Swedish.
Beautiful video! Thank you so much for making it. The Swedes have much to be proud of with their Royal Family.
Could you do a video on Charlotte of Monaco?
Could you do a list of the biographies of the queens consort of sweden ?
Karl XVI Gustaf would be 4.6875% French, 95.3125% German, going by your metric, although it’s not that simple.
your royal family will be soon kurdish lol
@@3rrlia661 - I’m not Swedish.
The Clary (Cleary) family were Irish who went to France
Wow, really ? That makes sense.
Like all royal houses it seems they are all have German ancestry. But if you are born and raised that country you are Swedish, British, Danish etc.
Could u do a Grimaldi family video?
Bernadotte’s blood is in the Danish and Norwegian Royal families too…all of Scandinavia’s royals can trace their bloodline to a Frenchman from Pau!
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Can you do Spain next?
The math behind the ancestry is badly broken, for no readily sane reason. I've no argument about the mostly French ancestry of the house of Bernadotte, but the lack of mention of the house of Saxon-Koberg alone makes this complete nonsense.
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