Editing Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right" size="500px"
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! colspan="2" |HM The King of Sweden
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| colspan="2" |[[File:Bernadotte_Carl_Gustaf.jpg|center|frameless]]
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|'''Titles'''
|King of [[Sweden]]
Duke of Jamtland
|-
|'''Reign'''
|15 September 1973 – present
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|'''Coronation'''
|27 March 1974
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|'''Predecessor'''
|[[King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden|Gustaf VI Adolf]]
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|'''Heir'''
|[[Ingrid, Crown Princess of Sweden]]
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! colspan="2" |Biographical Information
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|'''Born'''
|14 January 1947 (age 78)
Solna, Sweden
|-
|'''Spouse'''
|[[Theresa, Princess Royal]]
(m. 1985; d. 2019)
|-
|'''Issue'''
|[[Ingrid, Crown Princess of Sweden]]
[[Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Varmland]]

[[Princess Margaretha of Sweden|Margaretha, Crown Princess of Hanover]]

[[Princess Amelie of Sweden|Queen Amelie of Spain]]
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|'''Name'''
|Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus
|-
|'''House'''
|Bernadotte
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|'''Father'''
|[[Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden]]
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|'''Mother'''
|[[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
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|'''Religion'''
|Lutheran
|}
'''Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden''' (born ''Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden'' on 14 January 1947) is the current reigning King of Sweden. He is also a member of the British Royal Family as the brother-in-law of '''[[James IV, King of the United Kingdom]]'''. 

==Life==
Carl Gustaf was born the fifth child and only son of '''Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden''' and '''Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha'''. Carl Gustaf's father was killed in an airplane crash twelve days after his birth, making the infant heir to the Swedish throne. 

Carl Gustaf ascended to the throne upon his grandfather's death in 1973.

==Marriage and Issue==
On 14 April 1985, Carl Gustaf married '''Theresa, Princess Royal''' in Stockholm. The couple had four children, '''Ingrid, Carl Johan, Margaretha,''' and '''Amelie'''. 

Carl Gustaf was widowed in 2019.
{| class="wikitable"
!Photo
!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Marriage
|-
|[[File:Bernadotte_Ingrid_1986.jpg|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Ingrid, Crown Princess of Sweden]]
|9 November 1986
|
|[[Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (m. 2013); has issue
|-
|[[File:Bernadotte_Carl_Johan_1988.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Varmland]]
|13 May 1988
|
|Unmarried and without issue
|-
|[[File:Bernadotte_Margaretha.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Princess Margaretha of Sweden|Margaretha, Crown Princess of Hanover]]
|16 March 1990
|
|[[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover]] (m. 2017); has issue
|-
|[[File:Bernadotte_Amelie.png|frameless|150x150px]]
|[[Princess Amelie of Sweden|Queen Amelie of Spain]]
|1 October 1992
|
|[[Juan II, King of Spain]] (m. 2020); has issue
|}

==Residences==
<gallery>
File:Residences Sweden Stockholm Palace.jpg|Stockholm Palace; Official Residence
File:Residences Sweden Drottningholm Palace.jpg|Drottningholm Palace; Main Residence (March-May; September-November)
File:Residences Sweden Ulriksdal Palace.jpg|Ulriksdal Palace; Winter Residence (December-February)
File:Residences Sweden Solliden Palace.jpg|Solliden Palace; Summer Residence (June-August)
</gallery>

==Titles and Honours==

* '''1947-1965'''   Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden
* '''1965-1973'''   Prince Carl Gustaf, Duke of Jamtland
* '''1973-present'''   Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden

===National Honours===
[[File:Honours_Sweden_Order_of_the_Seraphim.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Seraphim (1970)

[[File:Honours_Sweden_Order_of_the_Sword.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Sword (1973)

[[File:Honours_Sweden_Order_of_the_Polar_Star.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Polar Star (1973)

[[File:Honours_Sweden_Order_of_Charles_XIII.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of Charles XIII (1973)

[[File:Honours_Sweden_Order_of_Vasa.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of Vasa (1965)

===Foreign Honours===
[[File:Honours_United_Kingdom_Order_of_the_Garter.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Garter (1985) (United Kingdom)

==Ancestry==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Parents
!Grandparents
!Great-Grandparents
!Great-Great-Grandparents
|-
|[[Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden]]
|[[King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]]
[[Princess Margaret of Connaught]]
|[[King Gustaf V of Sweden]]
[[Princess Victoria of Baden]]

[[Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom]]

[[Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia]]
|[[King Oscar II of Sweden]]
[[Princess Sophia of Nassau]]

[[Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden]]

[[Princess Louise of Prussia (b. 1838)|Princess Louise of Prussia]]

[[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]

[[Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom]]

[[Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia]]

[[Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt]]
|-
|[[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|[[Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
[[Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein]]
|[[Prince Leopold of the United Kingdom]]
[[Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]

[[Duke Friedrich Ferdinand I of Schleswig-Holstein]]

[[Princess Caroline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein]]
|[[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
[[Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom]]

[[George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]

[[Princess Helena of Nassau]]

[[Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg]]

[[Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe]]

[[Duke Frederick VIII of Schleswig-Holstein]]

[[Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|}

==Lines of Succession==
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! colspan="3" |Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
House of Bernadotte 

Born: 14 January 1947 
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| colspan="3" |<center>'''Lines of Succession'''</center>
|-
|<center>Preceded by</center>
|<center>Succession to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] throne</center>
|<center>Followed by</center>
|-
|<center><small>Incumbent</small>
'''<small>preceded by</small>'''
[[King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden|'''<small>Gustaf VI Adolf</small>''']]</center>
|<center>Incumbent</center>
|<center>[[Ingrid, Crown Princess of Sweden]]</center>
|}
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