Princess Margaretha of Sweden

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Princess Margaretha of Sweden (Margaretha Sofia Lovisa Ingeborg; 25 June 1899 – 4 January 1977) was a member of the Swedish Royal Family by birth and the Danish Royal Family by marriage. A granddaughter of King Oscar II and Queen Sophia of Sweden–Norway, she was the daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. In 1919, she married Prince Axel of Denmark, the second son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and Princess Marie of Orléans. They had two children: Georg and Flemming. Princess Margaretha was the elder sister of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway and Queen Astrid of the Belgians. Compared to her sisters, she led a relatively private life, but after the early deaths of her sisters, Margaretha became a great support for her sisters' motherless children in Belgium and Norway. Known affectionately to her family as "Tante Ta", she was a maternal aunt of King Harald V of Norway and Kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium; and a great aunt of King Haakon VIII...

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