Princess Of Sweden Margaretha

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Swedish royalty by birth, and a Princess of Denmark by marriage. She was the elder sister of Märtha, Crown Princess of Norway and Queen Astrid of the Belgians. The eldest child and daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, she was born Princess Margaretha of Sweden and Norway (later just "of Sweden", due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905). On 22 May 1919, at the Storkyrkan, Stockholm, she was married to Prince Axel of Denmark, her maternal first cousin once removed. The marriage was a love match; her mother remarked that the couple were so much in love that they could not be left alone in a furnished room. They had two sons. After the death of her sister, the Belgian Queen Astrid in 1935, she became a great support for her sister's children in Belgium. Also after the death of her other sister, the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha in 1954, she became a great support for her sister's children in Norway; she was the godmother of princess Märtha Louise of Norway. Her spouse died in 1964. She died in Kongsted, near Fakse, Denmark, on 4 January 1977, aged 77. Link to Wikipedia biography