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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUSTAVUS V  . (1858– ),

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king of
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Sweden, son of Oscar II., king of Sweden and
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Norway, and
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Queen
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Sophia
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Wilhelmina, was
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born at Drottningholm on the 16th of
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June 1858 . He entered the
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army, and was, like his
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father, a
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great traveller . As
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crown
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prince he held the
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title of
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duke of Warmland . He married in 1881
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Victoria (b . 1862), daughter of
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Frederick
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William
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Louis,
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grand duke of
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Baden, and of
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Louise, princess of
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Prussia . The duchess of Baden was the granddaughter of Sophia, princess of Sweden, and the
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marriage of the crown prince thus effected a
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union between the Bernadotte
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dynasty and the
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ancient
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Swedish royal
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house of
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Vasa . During the
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absence or illness of his father Gustavus repeatedly acted as
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regent, and was therefore already thoroughly versed in public affairs when he succeeded to the Swedish
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throne on the 8th of
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December 1907, the crown of Norway having been separated from that of Sweden in 1905 . He took as his
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motto " With the
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people for the Fatherland." The crown prince, Oscar Frederick William Gustavus
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Adolphus, duke of Scania (b . 1882), married in 1905 Princess
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Margaret of
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Connaught (b . 1882), niece of King
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Edward VII . A son was born to them at
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Stockholm on the 22nd of
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April 1906, and another son in the following
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year .

The king's two younger sons were William, duke of Sudermania (b . 1884), and

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Eric, duke of Westmanland (b . 1889) .

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My grandfather, Charles Adolf Engberg of Hjo, Sweden told me that his sister, Ms. Engberg, served as the governess to King Gustavus V. of Sweden on or before 1905. Does anyone have any information to substantiate this or her first name. Nancy Harvey, Rockford, Illinois, USA
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