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CHARLES XV

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES XV  . (1826-1872), king of Sweden and Norway, eldest son of Oscar I., king of Sweden and Norway, and Josephine Beauharnais of Leuchtenberg, was born on the 3rd of May 1826 . On the 19th of
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June 1850 he married Louisa, daughter of Prince Frederick of the
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Netherlands . He became regent on the 25th of September 1857, and king on the
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death of his
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father (8th of
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July 1859) . As
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crown-prince, Charles's brusque and downright manners had led many to regard his future accession with some apprehension, yet he proved to be one of the most popular of Scandinavian kings and a constitutional ruler in the best sense of the word . His reign was remarkable for its manifold and far-reaching reforms . Sweden's existing communal law (1862), ecclesiastical law (1863) and criminal law (1864) were enacted appropriately enough under the direction of a king whose motto was: "Build up the
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land upon the
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laws!" Charles XV. also materially assisted De Geer (q.v.) to carry through his memorable reform of the constitution in 1863 . Charles was a warm advocate of " Scandinavianism " and the
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political solidarity of the three
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northern kingdoms, and his warm friendship for Frederick VII., it is said, led him to give
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half promises of help to Denmark on the
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eve of the war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable . In view, however, of the unpreparedness of the
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Swedish army and the difficulties of the situation, Charles was forced to observe a strict
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neutrality . He died at
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Malmo on the 18th of September 1872 . Charles XV. was highly gifted in many directions . He attained to some eminence as a painter, and his Digte show him to have been a true poet .

He

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left but one child, a daughter, Louisa Josephina Eugenia, who in 1869 married the crown-prince Frederick of Denmark . See Cecilia Bath-Holmberg, Carl X V., som enskild man, konung och konstndr (
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Stockholm, 1891); Yngvar Nielsen, Det norske og svenske Kongehus fra 1828 (Christiania, 1883) . (R . N .

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