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Word: sweden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Scandinavian eligibles might there be? Unfortunately the kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark can boast between them not a single female offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Engagement | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces. There was, for example, Princess Astrid, 20, robust daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, a younger brother of scrawny King Gustaf V of Sweden. Recently it was decided that she would do very nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Engagement | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Stockholm King Gustaf of Sweden gave a court dinner in honor of his niece* and Crown Prince Leopold, who had hastened thither last week. Raising high his glass, King Gustaf proposed and drank to the engagement a potent Swedish toast,† crying "Skal!" ("your health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Engagement | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: "I was attended by physicians in Tokyo for a bad cold last week. Recovered, I left for Kioto* with my wife, Princess Louise. Later we will tour the Inland Sea on a Japanese warship and visit Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Prince Leopold, 25, heir to the Belgian throne; to Princess Astrid of Sweden, 21, "prettiest Princess of Europe." She has been reported engaged to the Prince of Wales, Prince Olaf of Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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