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...lifetime reputation of this great-grandson of Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte puts him squarely on the side of democracy in Sweden's undercover struggle. No less a democrat is his son, Gustafus Adolfus, who at 58 is still preparing to become King of Sweden. During the King's vacations Gustafus Adolfus has taken over his duties and his Ministers have found little difference between father & son. Not quite so tall, not quite so spare as Gustaf, his son has all his political acumen, all his popularity. It used to be said in Sweden that...
...Gustafus Adolfus rose from the ranks to the position of general in the Army-by ability, it is said-leads his own troops in maneuvers, has the personal loyalty of most high Army officers. Ordinary Swedes like him because in his younger days he was an expert skier, golfer, swimmer, horseman, cross-country runner and marksman, as well as being a famed archeologist. Not to be lightly dismissed in any attempted Putsch is this able, strongwilled, elderly Crown Prince. His two wives were English: one, Princess Margaret, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; the other, Lady Louise Mountbatten, a great-granddaughter...
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