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Gustaf VI Adolf, born 11 Nov., 1882, succeeded on the death of his father, King Guataf V, 29 Oct., 1950. Married : (1) 15 June, 1905, to Princess Margaret Victoria, born 15 Jan., 1882, died 1 May, 1920, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught ; (2) 3 Nov., 1923, to Lady Louise Mountbatten, born 13 July, 1889, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, afterwards 1st Marquess of Milford Haven.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1956). Sweden. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270855_73
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