Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret of Connaught and Strathearn VA ( born January 15, 1882 in Bagshot Park, Surrey; † May 1, 1920 in Stockholm, Sweden ) was a member of the British royal family, from the House of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha, and by marriage Princess of Sweden.
Life
Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah was the daughter of Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), and his wife Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860-1917), daughter of Field Marshal Prince Frederick Charles and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt- Dessau. Your paternal grandparents were the British Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha.
The Princess was christened on 11 March 1882 in the private chapel at Windsor Castle by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait. As godparents served Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia, Empress Augusta, her aunt, the Princess Victoria of Prussia, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia and his wife Maria Anna, and her uncle, the Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII as a granddaughter Queen Victoria wore from birth to the title her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret. Within the family, it was called Daisy.
Courtship and Marriage
Princess Margaret and her younger sister Patricia were considered the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Their uncle, King Edward VII, she wanted to marry a European king or crown prince. So the family Connaught traveled in January 1905 to Portugal. The royal couple Charles I and Amélie had two sons, Crown Prince Ludwig Philipp and his younger brother, Prince Manuel (1889-1932), who came as a marriage candidate in question. Then she traveled to Spain, where they by the young King Alfonso XIII. were received. But none of the expectations were true. The Connaught family continued their journey to Egypt and the Sudan. In Cairo they met the Swedish Duke of Skåne, who was on a study tour to the Pharaonic tombs at the time. Between the two, there should have been love at first sight. Her parents were very satisfied because the Duke was a grandson of the Swedish King Oscar II.
On June 15, 1905 married Princess Margaret in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle the Prince Gustav Adolf ( 1882-1973 ), the eldest son of the Crown Prince and later King Gustav V and Princess Victoria of Baden. The marriage was a very happy, from the common connection went five children were born:
- Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund (1906-1947), Duke of Västerbotten ∞ 1932 Princess Sibylla of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha ( 1908-1972 )
- Sigvard Oscar Fredrik (1907-2002), Count of Wisborg
- Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta (1910-2000) ∞ 1935 King Frederik IX. of Denmark (1899-1972)
- Bertil Oscar Carl Gustav Eugén (1912-1997), Duke of Halland ∞ 1976 Lillian May Davies ( 1915-2013 )
- Carl Johann Arthur (1916-2012), Count of Wisborg ∞ 1946 Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark ( 1910-1987 )
Crown Princess Margareta died on 1 May 1920, the effects of blood poisoning, which she contracted after the operation of a displaced middle ear infection ( mastoiditis ). The only 38 -year-old was pregnant at this time in the eighth month, and was buried in the cemetery Haga. She had previously in his will that she wanted to be buried in any church.