Princess Margaret of Connaught

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Princess Margaret of Connaught (Swedish: Margareta; Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah; 15 January 1882 – 1 May 1920) was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. She died 30 years before her husband ascended the throne as King of Sweden, so she never became queen. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she was the first of the three children born to Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of the queen, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. She and her future husband met while she and her family were travelling in Cairo; however, even though her younger sister, Patricia, was the one proposed for marriage to Gustaf Adolf, he and Margaret fell in love at first sight. After they married in 1905, the couple spent their honeymoon in Ireland before arriving in Sweden. Their marriage was described as very happy and it produced five children. After Gustaf Adolf's grandfather, Oscar II, died little more than two years after Norway became independent...

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