Swedish Royal Family Archives - Page 3 of 3

Sofia of Nassau – The Blue Duchess

Saturday, 2 December 2017, 7:00 Sophie 0

Sophia Wilhelmina Mariana Henrietta was born on 9 July 1836, at Biebrich Castle in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her parents were William, Duke of Nassau, and Princess Pauline of Württemberg. Rumours had it that the Duke terrorised the family with his moody personality, which was altered by a drinking problem. He died when Sophia was only three [read more]

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg – A Queen on the loose

Saturday, 25 November 2017, 7:00 Sophie 0

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was born 11 November 1599 in Königsberg, to parents John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and his wife Anna, Duchess of Prussia. Her mother has been described as dominant, and she practised strict Lutheran orthodoxy. Maria Eleonora did not receive any formal education but showed great abilities in embroidery, drawing, and music. Described [read more]

Love against all odds – The miner’s daughter who became Princess of Sweden

Thursday, 16 November 2017, 7:00 Sophie 3

Lillian May Davies was born on 30 August 1915 in Wales to miner William Davis and his wife, Gladys. She grew up in the slums of Swansea with her mother after her father had abandoned the family. In 1931, 16-year-old Lillian moved to London with hopes of a modelling contract. She had dropped the second [read more]

Victoria of Baden – A forbidden love

Friday, 3 November 2017, 7:00 Sophie 0

Sophie Marie Viktoria was born on 7 August 1862, at Karlsruhe Castle in Baden, Germany. Her parents were Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden and Princess Louise of Prussia. Through her marriage to King Gustav V of Sweden, she was Queen from 1907 until her death in 1930. The couple married in 1881, shortly after [read more]

Princess Märtha of Sweden – Mother of the nation

Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 7:00 Brittani Barger 2

Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 28 March 1901 to Prince Carl of Sweden and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. She was the second of four children. Her younger sister, Astrid, would go on to be Queen of the Belgians. It was on 21 March 1929 that Märtha married her cousin, then Crown [read more]

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Duchess of Västerbotten

Thursday, 13 October 2016, 13:00 Brittani Barger 0

Sibylla Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora was born on 18 January 1908 in Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (now Germany) at Friedenstein Castle. Her parents were Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Sibylla had one older brother, Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; two younger brothers, Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Friedrich Josias, Prince of [read more]