Princess Margaretha of Sweden was a member of the Swedish Royal Family by birth and the Danish Royal Family by marriage. She was the elder sister of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway and Queen Astrid of
Margaretha in the year of her marriage, 1919
Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland was a Swedish prince. Through his daughters Märtha and Astrid, for whom he arranged dynastic marriages, he is an ancestor of current members of
Princess Margaretha of Sweden
…Margaretha was born on 25 June 1899 at her parents' summer residence, the Villa Parkudden, at Djurgården in Stockholm. 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…
Photograph of Prince Carl, c. 1930
Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway as a child, 1869
King Oscar II of Sweden and his son Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, 1879
Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Västergötland by Jules David, 1894