Carola of Vasa
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Carola of Vasa was a titular princess of Sweden by birth and styled Princess of Vasa as member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. By marriage to Albert, King of Saxony, she was the last Queen of Saxony
Carola as crown princess in c. 1865
Portrait by Emanuel Thomas Peter, 1850
Gate of Honor of the Altstädter Rathaus in Dresden on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Albert and Princess Carola on 18 June 1853, followed by the marriage of the couple in the Dresden Cathedral.
The Carolahous, ca. 1909
Gustav, Prince of Vasa
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Gustav, Prince of Vasa, born Crown Prince of Sweden, was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica. His Austrian princely title was actually spelled Wasa.
Carola of Vasa
…Kaiserstöckl, an annex of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, as the second child and only daughter of the former crown prince of Sweden and Austrian field marshal Prince Gustav of Vasa and his wife Princess Louise Amelie of Baden. Her only sibling, Prince Louis, was born and died in 1832, so Carola remained the only surviving offspring…
Portrait c. 1830
Portrait of Gustav as a boy by Johann Dominik Bossi, 1808