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| | HELLO! Royalty |
 | | The origins of the current Swedish royal family, the House of Bernadotte, lie not in Scandinavia, but in 19th-century France and a Napoleonic marshal called Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. |
 | | Officially adopted by the ageing Swedish monarch, Karl XIII and his wife, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, Jean-Baptiste took the name Karl Johan and was crowned Karl XIV Johan, King of Sweden and Norway - which he had annexed four years earlier - on May 1, 1818. |
 | | This meant that the current monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf's only son, Crown Prince Carl Philip, was deprived of his position as first in line to the throne when he was less than a year old in favour of his older sister, Victoria. |
| www.hellomagazine.com /royalty/sweden/history.html (345 words) |
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