Oscar II Famous memorial
Original Name Oskar Fredrik
Birth 21 Jan 1829 Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden
Death 8 Dec 1907 (aged 78) Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden
Burial
Riddarholmskyrkan
Riddarholmen, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden
Memorial ID
8509162
Map of Cemetery: https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/harris5439/cemeteri...lng=18.025&zm=17
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King of Sweden and Norway, Bernadotte Dynasty.
Born in Stockholm, he was the third son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine, a princess of Leuchtenberg. He was styled Duke of East Gothland (Östergötland).
He married Princess Sofia, a daughter of Duke William of Nassau, in June 1857, and with her had four sons.
Oscar published several books of verse under his own name, and wrote on historical subjects. He was politically conservative and a Germanophile in as much as he was anti-Russian in his political thinking.
In 1872, he succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Carl XV, whose only son had died in infancy.
He was extremely fond of boating and regularly yachted around the Scandinavian peninsula with friends. There were parties aboard and ashore and rumors of a number of extramarital liaisons and offspring with young ladies.
His policy toward Norway, denied its own consular representation, increased tensions between the two governments. As a result, in 1905, Norway severed its union with Sweden, and Oscar was obliged to abdicate the Norwegian throne, which he mourned as deeply.
After he refused to allow any of his own sons to accept the Norwegian throne, his cousin was elected King Haakon VII, and the Swedish people staged special events to try to console Oscar. He died two years later in Stockholm Palace at the age of 78, and was succeeded by his son, Gustaf V.
Bio by: Iola
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Family Members
Parents
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Oscar I
1799–1859
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Josephine
1807–1876

Spouse
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Sofia Wilhelmina Mariana Henrietta of Nassau
1836–1913 (m. 1857)

Siblings
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Carl XV
1826–1872
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Gustav of Sweden-Norway
1827–1852
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Eugenie of Sweden-Norway
1830–1889
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August of Sweden-Norway
1831–1873

Children
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Gustaf V
1858–1950
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Oscar of Sweden
1859–1953
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Carl of Sweden
1861–1951
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Eugen of Sweden
1865–1947
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King of Sweden and Norway, Bernadotte Dynasty. Born in Stockholm, he was the third son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine, a princess of Leuchtenberg. He was styled Duke of East Gothland (Östergötland). He married Princess Sofia, a daughter of Duke William of Nassau, in June 1857, and with her had four sons. Oscar published several books of verse under his own name, and wrote on historical subjects. He was politically conservative and a Germanophile in as much as he was anti-Russian in his political thinking. In 1872, he succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Carl XV, whose only son had died in infancy. He was extremely fond of boating and regularly yachted around the Scandinavian peninsula with friends. There were parties aboard and ashore and rumors of a number of extramarital liaisons and offspring with young ladies. His policy toward Norway, denied its own consular representation, increased tensions between the two governments. As a result, in 1905, Norway severed its union with Sweden, and Oscar was obliged to abdicate the Norwegian throne, which he mourned as deeply. After he refused to allow any of his own sons to accept the Norwegian throne, his cousin was elected King Haakon VII, and the Swedish people staged special events to try to console Oscar. He died two years later in Stockholm Palace at the age of 78, and was succeeded by his son, Gustaf V.
Bio by: Iola

Family Members
Parents
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Oscar I
1799–1859
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Josefina
1807–1876

Spouse
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Sofia
1836–1913 (m. 1857)

Siblings
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Carl XV
1826–1872
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Gustav of Sweden-Norway
1827–1852
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Eugenie of Sweden-Norway
1830–1889
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August of Sweden-Norway
1831–1873
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Ida de Brunhoff Leclercq
1838–1906

Half Siblings
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Hjalmar Fransson Högqvist
1839–1874
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Max Högqvist
1840–1872

Children
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Gustaf V
1858–1950
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Oscar of Sweden
1859–1953
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Artur Bäckström
1861–1941
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Carl of Sweden
1861–1951
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Eugen of Sweden
1865–1947
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Anna Maria Viktoria Hammarström Hofman-Uddgren
1868–1947
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Amanda Carolina Jansson Personne
1872–1955
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Elin Matilda Esping Smitz
1878–1960
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Florence Elisabet Stephens
1881–1979
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• Oscar II (21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907), baptised Oscar Fredrik,[1] was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
At his birth in Stockholm, Oscar Fredrik was created Duke of Östergötland. He entered the navy at the age of eleven, and was appointed junior lieutenant in July 1845. Later he studied at Uppsala University, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. On 13 December 1848, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
On 6 June 1857 he married in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany, Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, youngest daughter of Duke William of Nassau.
From 1859, when his father died, he was first in line to the Swedish throne after his oldest brother King Charles, who then had no male heirs (his son had died in infancy in 1854). His middle brother Gustaf had died in 1852.
He succeeded his brother Charles XV and IV on 18 September 1872, and was crowned as king of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 18 July 1873. At the accession he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl / Broderfolkenes Vel ("The Welfare of the Brother Peoples"). While the King and the Royal Court resided mostly in Sweden, Oscar made the effort of learning to be fluent in Norwegian and from the very beginning he realized the essential difficulties in the maintenance of the union between the two countries.
The political events which led up to the peaceful dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 could hardly have been attained but for the tact and patience of the king himself. He was dethroned on 7 June 1905 by the Norwegian Parliament and renounced the Norwegian throne on 26 October. He declined, indeed, to permit any prince of his house to become king of Norway, but better relations between the two countries were restored before his death, which occurred in Stockholm on 8 December 1907.
 
His acute intelligence and his aloofness from the dynastic considerations affecting most European sovereigns gave the king considerable weight as an arbitrator in international questions. At the request of the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States in 1889 he appointed the chief justice of Samoa, and he was again called in to arbitrate in Samoan affairs in 1899.
In 1897 he was empowered to appoint a fifth arbitrator if necessary in the Venezuelan dispute, and he was called in to act as umpire in the Anglo-American arbitration treaty that was quashed by the United States Senate. He won many friends in the United Kingdom by his outspoken and generous support of Britain at the time of the Second Boer War (1899–1902), expressed in a declaration printed in The Times of the 2 May 1900, when continental opinion was almost universally hostile.

He was the 1,027th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain and the 774th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1881.
During his time as King the Office of Prime Minister was instituted with Louis De Geer as the first holder of this new position. Among the prime ministers during the reign of Oscar the most known and powerful was Erik Gustaf Boström who became very trusted by Oscar. Boström was given free hands by Oscar to select his own ministers without much regal involvement. It was an arrangement that furthered the road to parliamentarism.
Himself a distinguished writer and musical amateur, King Oscar proved a generous friend of learning, and did much to encourage the development of education throughout his dominions. In 1858 a collection of his lyrical and narrative poems, Memorials of the Swedish Fleet, published anonymously, obtained the second prize of the Swedish Academy. His "Contributions to the Military History of Sweden in the Years 1711, 1712, 1713," originally appeared in the Annals of the Academy, and were printed separately in 1865. His works, which included his speeches, translations of Herder's Cid and Goethe's Torquato Tasso, and a play, Castle Cronberg, were collected in two volumes in 1875–76, and a larger edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1885–88.
His Easter hymn and some other of his poems are familiar throughout the Scandinavian countries. His Memoirs of Charles XII of Sweden were translated into English in 1879. In 1881 he founded the World's first open-air museum at his summer residence near Christiania, now Oslo. In 1885 he published his Address to the Academy of Music, and a translation of one of his essays on music appeared in Literature in May 1900. He had a valuable collection of printed and manuscript music, which was readily accessible to the historical student of music.
Being a theater lover, he commissioned a new opera house to be built by Axel Anderberg for the Royal Swedish Opera which was inaugurated on September 19, 1898. It is until today the current home of that institution. Oscar II told Henrik Ibsen that his Ghosts was "not a good play". As he was dying, he requested that the theatres not be closed on account of his death. His wishes were respected.
King Oscar II was an enthusiast of Arctic exploration. Along with Swedish millionaire Oscar Dickson and Russian magnate Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, he was the patron of a number of pioneering Arctic expeditions in the 1800s. Among the ventures the king sponsored, the most important are Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's explorations to the Russian Arctic and Greenland, as well as Fridtjof Nansen's Polar journey on the Fram.[2]
The name and portrait of Oscar II have been used as a trademark for King Oscar sardines (which remains the only brand to obtain his “royal permission”) as well as for gingerbread cookies (pepparkakor) and other bakery products made by Göteborgs Kex AB.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_II_of_Sweden

Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik;[1] 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was the King of Sweden from 1872 until his death, and was also the final King of Norway from the House of Bernadotte.
Oscar II was King during a time when both Sweden and Norway were undergoing a period of industrialization and rapid technological progress. His reign also saw the gradual decline of the Union of Sweden and Norway, which culminated in its dissolution in 1905. He was subsequently succeeded as King of Norway by his grandnephew Prince Carl of Denmark under the regnal name Haakon VII, and as King of Sweden by his eldest son, Gustaf V.
Oscar II is the paternal great-great-grandfather of Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden since 1973. Harald V, King of Norway since 1991, is a great-grandson of Oscar II, through his third son Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland.
Reign
18 September 1872 – 8 December 1907
Coronation
12 May 1873
Predecessor
Charles XV
Successor
Gustaf V
King of Norway
Reign
18 September 1872 – 26 October 1905
Coronation
18 July 1873
Predecessor
Charles IV
Successor
Haakon VII

Born
21 January 1829
Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Died
8 December 1907 (aged 78)
Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Burial
19 December 1907
Riddarholm Church
Spouse
Sophia of Nassau (m. 1857)
Issue
Gustaf V of Sweden
Prince Oscar Bernadotte
Prince Carl
Prince Eugén
Full name
Oscar Fredrik
House
Bernadotte
Father
Oscar I of Sweden
Mother
Josephine of Leuchtenberg
Religion
Church of Sweden
Church of Norway
Signature

Oscar Fredrik was born in Stockholm on 21 January 1829, the third of four sons of Crown Prince Oscar and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. Upon his birth, he was created Duke of Östergötland. During his childhood he was placed in the care of the royal governess, Countess Christina Ulrika Taube.[2]
Prince Oscar entered the Royal Swedish Navy as a midshipman at the age of eleven, and was appointed junior lieutenant in July 1845. Later he studied at Uppsala University, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. On 13 December 1848, was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
A distinguished writer and musical amateur himself, King Oscar proved a generous friend of learning, and did much to encourage the development of education throughout his dominions. In 1858 a collection of his lyrical and narrative poems, Memorials of the Swedish Fleet, published anonymously, obtained the second prize of the Swedish Academy. His "Contributions to the Military History of Sweden in the Years 1711, 1712, 1713", originally appeared in the Annals of the Academy, and were printed separately in 1865. His works, which included his speeches, translations of Herder's Cid and Goethe's Torquato Tasso, and a play, Castle Cronberg, were collected in two volumes in 1875–76, and a larger edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1885–88.
In 1859, Prince Oscar became heir-presumptive to the thrones of Sweden and Norway, as his eldest brother King Charles XV of Sweden/Charles IV of Norway was without a legitimate heir, having lost his only son, Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, to pneumonia in 1854. His second elder brother, Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, had before died of typhoid fever in 1852.
King of Sweden and Norway
Oscar II became King on 18 September 1872, upon the death of his brother, Charles XV. At his accession, he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl / Broderfolkenes Vel ("The Welfare of the Brother Peoples"). While the King, his family and the Royal Court resided mostly in Sweden, Oscar II made the effort of learning to be fluent in Norwegian and from the very beginning realized the essential difficulties in the maintenance of the union between the two countries.
Foreign and domestic statecraft
His acute intelligence and his aloofness from the dynastic considerations affecting most European sovereigns (both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were French military commanders who served under Napoleon I) gave the king considerable weight as an arbitrator in international questions. At the request of Great Britain, Germany and the United States in 1889 he appointed the Chief Justice of Samoa under the Treaty of Berlin, and he was again called on to arbitrate in Samoan affairs in 1899.
In 1897 he was empowered to appoint a fifth arbitrator if necessary in the Venezuelan dispute, and he was called on to act as umpire in the Anglo-American arbitration treaty that was quashed by the United States Senate. He won many friends in the United Kingdom by his outspoken and generous support of Britain at the time of the Second Boer War (1899–1902), expressed in a declaration printed in The Times of 2 May 1900, when continental opinion was almost universally hostile.[3]
He remained a strong supporter of the Navy throughout his life, and frequently visited ships of the fleet. When the coastal defence ship Oscar II was launched, he even signed his name on the vessel's aft main gun tower.[4]
The office of Prime Minister of Sweden was instituted in 1876. Louis De Geer became the first head of government in Sweden to use this title. The most known and powerful first minister of the Crown during the reign of Oscar was the conservative estate owner Erik Gustaf Boström. Boström served as Prime Minister in 1891–1900 and 1902–1905. He was trusted and respected by Oscar II, who had much difficulty approving someone else as prime minister. Over a period of time, the King gave Boström a free hand to select his own ministers without much royal involvement. It was an arrangement (unintentional by both the King and Boström) that furthered the road to parliamentarism.
Science and the arts


Portrait of Oscar II by Anders Zorn 1898
His Easter hymn and some other of his poems are familiar throughout the Scandinavian countries. His work on Charles XII of Sweden were translated into English in 1879. In 1881 he founded the world's first open-air museum, at Bygdøy, located next to his summer residence near Oslo (back then known as Christiania). In 1885 he published his Address to the Academy of Music, and a translation of one of his essays on music appeared in Literature in May 1900. He had a valuable collection of printed and manuscript music, which was readily accessible to the historical student of music.
Being a theater lover, he commissioned a new opera house to be built by Axel Anderberg for the Royal Swedish Opera which was inaugurated on 19 September 1898. It remains as the home of that institution. Oscar II once told playwright Henrik Ibsen that his Ghosts was "not a good play". As he was dying, he requested that the theatres not be closed on account of his death. His wishes were respected.
King Oscar II was an enthusiast of Arctic exploration. Along with Swedish millionaire Oscar Dickson and Russian magnate Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, he was the patron of a number of pioneering Arctic expeditions in the 1800s. Among the ventures the king sponsored, the most important are Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's explorations to the Russian Arctic and Greenland, and Fridtjof Nansen's Polar journey on the Fram.[5]
Oscar was also a generous sponsor of the sciences and personally funded the world famous Vega Expedition which was the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage, the sea route between Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean, and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia. Oscar was also particularly interested in mathematics. He set up a contest, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, for "an important discovery in the realm of higher mathematical analysis".[6][7][8]
Death
The political events which led up to the peaceful dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 could hardly have been attained but for the tact and patience of the king himself. He was dethroned on 7 June 1905 by the Storting and renounced the Norwegian throne on 26 October. He declined, indeed, to permit any prince of his house to become king of Norway, but better relations between the two countries were restored before his death. Oscar II died in Stockholm on 8 December 1907 at 9:10 am.[9]
Marriage and children


Oscar II boating.
Engraving by Anders Zorn.
On 6 June 1857 he married in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Duchy of Nassau (located in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, the youngest daughter of Duke William of Nassau and Princess Pauline of Württemberg. They had four sons:
1. King Gustaf V (1858–1950)
2. Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotland, later known as Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1859–1953)
3. Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861–1951)
4. Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke (1865–1947)
His eldest son Gustaf was Duke of Värmland and succeeded him as King Gustaf V of Sweden from 1907 until 1950, married Princess Victoria of Baden and they had three sons. His second son, Prince Oscar, lost his rights of succession to the throne upon his unequal marriage in 1888 to a former lady-in-waiting, Ebba Munck af Fulkila, and was granted the title of Prince Bernadotte first in Sweden, and from 1892 in Luxembourg, where he also was created Count of Wisborg as an hereditary title for his marital progeny (Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg was the half-brother of his mother, Queen Sophia). The other sons of Oscar II were Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland who married Princess Ingeborg of Denmark; and Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke, who was well known as an artist and remained a bachelor all his life.
Alleged extramarital children
Oscar II is also suspected to have had several extramarital children,[10] of which at least five are named:
• Anna Hofman-Uddgren (1868–1947) by Emma Hammarström (1849–1910)[11]
• Knut August Ekstam (born 1878, in U.S.A. 1903, death unknown) by Marie Friberg (1852–1934)
• Maria Christina Boo (1853–1948) by Hedda Jacobsdotter Wallgren (1826–1904)
• Elin Esping Smitz (1878–1960) by Paulina Mathilda Esping (1858–1878)[12][13]
• Florence Stephens (1881–1979) by Elisabeth Kreüger Stephens (1858–1911)[14]
• Nils Teodor Ekstam (1889–1954) also by Friberg above[15][16]
However, unlike his father, Oscar II, never officially recognized any illegitimate children of his.
Honours
Portrait of Oscar II wearing the Crown of Eric XIV and mantle, by Oscar Björck. King Oscar II was the last crowned Swedish king and was known to enjoy the pomp and ceremony.
National[17]
• Knight and Commander of the Seraphim, 21 January 1829
• Knight of Charles XIII, 21 January 1829
• Commander Grand Cross, Order of the Sword, 21 January 1829
• Commander Grand Cross, Order of the Polar Star, 21 January 1829
• Commander Grand Cross, Order of Vasa, 15 June 1866[18]
• Grand Cross with Collar, Order of St. Olav, 21 January 1829[19]
• Founder and Master, Order of the Norwegian Lion, 1904-1905[20]
Foreign[17]
• Duchy of Anhalt: Grand Cross, Order of Albert the Bear
•  Austrian Empire: Grand Cross, Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, 1866[21]
•  Baden:
◦ Knight, House Order of Fidelity
◦ Berthold the First Special Class, Order of the Zähringer Lion
•  Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert
•  Belgium: Grand Cordon, Royal Order of Leopold I, 1856[22]
•  Empire of Brazil: Grand Cross, Order of the Southern Cross
•  Denmark:[23]
◦ Knight of the Elephant, 3 June 1848
◦ Dannebrogsmændenes Hæderstegn, 5 October 1863
•  France:
◦ Grand Cross, Legion d'Honneur
◦ Gold Médaille militaire
• Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross, Order of the Redeemer
•  Kingdom of Hanover: Grand Cross, Royal Guelphic Order
•  Hawaii: Grand Cross, Royal Order of Kamehameha I
•  Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross, Ludwig Order
•  Kingdom of Prussia:
◦ Knight with Collar of the Black Eagle
◦ Grand Cross, Order of the Red Eagle
◦ Grand Commander, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
•  Kingdom of Italy: Knight of the Annunciation, 1862
•  Empire of Japan: Collar, Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
• Mecklenburg: Grand Cross, House Order of the Wendish Crown
•  Monaco: Grand Cross, Order of Saint-Charles
•  Nassau: Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau
•  Netherlands: Grand Cross, Order of the Netherlands Lion
◦  Luxembourg: Grand Cross, Order of the Oak Crown
•  Ottoman Empire:
◦ Osmanieh Order, 1st Class
◦ Order of Distinction
•  Kingdom of Portugal:
◦ Grand Cross, Order of the Tower and Sword
◦ Sash of the Three Orders
• Qajar dynasty: House Order of the Imperial Effigy, 1st Class
•  Kingdom of Romania:
◦ Grand Cross, Order of the Star of Romania
◦ Grand Cross, Order of the Crown of Romania
•  Russian Empire:
◦ Knight of St. Andrew
◦ Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
◦ Knight of the White Eagle
◦ Knight 1st Class, Order of Saint Anna
◦ Knight 1st Class, Order of St. Stanislaus
•  Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown
•  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross, Order of the White Falcon
•  Principality of Serbia: Grand Cross, Order of the Cross of Takovo
• Siam:
◦ Knight, Order of the Royal House of Chakri
◦ Grand Cordon, Order of the White Elephant
•  Spain: Knight of the Golden Fleece, 1881[24]
• Beylik of Tunis: Husainid House Order
•  United Kingdom: Stranger Knight of the Garter, 17 May 1881[25]
• Venezuela: Collar, Order of the Liberator
•  Württemberg: Grand Cross, Order of the Württemberg Crown
Legacy
The name and portrait of Oscar II have been used as a trademark for King Oscar sardines in Norway since 1902[26] (which remains the only brand to have once obtained his "royal permission" [27]) as well as gingerbread cookies (pepparkakor) and other bakery products made by Göteborgs Kex in Sweden.[28]

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Further reading
• Cronholm, Neander N. (1902). A History of Sweden from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Chicago, New York [etc.] The author. pp. 301–10.
•  "Oscar II." . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
•  "Oscar II, Frederic" . The New Student's Reference Work. 1914.
External links
• The Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav – H.M. King Oscar II the former Grand Master of the Order

Oscar II
House of Bernadotte
Born: 21 January 1829 Died: 8 December 1907
Regnal titles
Preceded by Charles XV/IV King of Sweden 18 September 1872 – 8 December 1907
Succeeded by Gustav V King of Norway 18 September 1872 – 7 June 1905
Vacant Title next held by Haakon VII

House of Bernadotte
Monarchs:

Charles XIV John of Sweden / Charles III John of Norway


Oscar I of Sweden and Norway


Charles XV of Sweden / Charles IV of Norway


Oscar II of Sweden and Norway


Gustaf V of Sweden


Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden


Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

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Grief of the Young and Poor.

In the palace courtyard in the dim cold grey mist of the morning stood a crowd of school boys, King Oscar's most devoted family. Here they had stood for hours, blue and shivering, watching the palace flagstaff. There, also, gathered many old men and women, such as the king had always stopped to comfort with mild words and generous alms when he met them in the parks or streets, their faces tear-stained because their beloved king and benefactor was dying. Sud denly the flag dropped to half mast and a wail of misery and sorrow arose. The old folks clasped their hands and prayed and wept aloud and the schoolboys' lamentations were pitiful to hear. In the death chamber kneIt the heart-broken queen and gathered about her were her children, grand children and great-grandchildren, praying for strength to bear their great affliction. The church bells began to toll and the minute guns boomed. All Sweden mourned its great loss.

Sketch of Oscar's Life.

Oscar was born January 21, 1829. He was the third son of King Oscar I., and of Queen Josephine, daughter, of Prince Eugene of Leuechtenberg, and a grandson of Marshal Bernadotte. He succeeded to the throne at the death of his brother, King Carl XV, September 18, 1872. He was married June 6, 1857, to Queen Sophia, daughter of the late Duke William of Nassau. Four children survive him - Gustave, now king, born June 16, 1858; Prince Oscar Bernadotte, born November 15, 1859; Prince Carl, born February 27, 1861, and Prince Eugene, born August 1, 1865. Gustave was married September 20, 1881, to Princess Victoria of Baden-Baden. Their eldest son, Prince Gustave, was married June 15, 1905, to Princess Margaret Victoria of Con naught. Prince Oscar renounced his succession to the throne and married March 15, 18S8, Ebba Munck, of Fulkila.

Roosevelt Sends Condolence. Washington. Dec. 10.

Official information of the demise of King Oscar of Sweden was conveyed to this government in a cablegram from American Minister Graves. The president Monday sent a telegram of condolence addressed to the new king at Stockholm, as follows: “I deeply sympathize with your majesty and with the people of Sweden in the loss of an honored father and a venerated sovereign. (Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."

Wausau Daily Herald
Wausau, Wisconsin
10 Dec 1907, Tue  •  Page 6
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(to Hans:)
Ha! Thanks for the translation. I was actually just wondering how well your Swedish reading was doing, but I think I will glean some info to put into the family tree about Oscar. I love the line that translates: "Oscar turned out to be a good skull." I hope I can have that said of me one day!

I happened upon the Oscar info as I was hunting for some of our 5G ancestors in the Smedberg line. There I found another Hans, whose last name was Ericson. He had a son Sven Hansson, who had a son Johannes Svensson, who had a son Andrew Johannes Smedberg, whose daughter Emma married our GGpa Peter Hans Johnson. Still looking for his wife, and also his son Sven's parents. Andrew Smedberg is buried at West Union Lutheran Church Cemetery in West Union, Carver County. He has two gravesites in the graveyard, one of which is a memorial to his service in the Union Army during the Civil War. We had lots of soldiers in our family from that period who lived in that same area. We lost Ola Hanson in 1864. Glad the other ancestors made it through that awful time.

On that 5G level, I found the first person in our tree with the first name of Simon I can remember who is a direct line to us. Simon Nilsson (5G Gpa) and his wife Stina Olofsdotter had a daughter Casja Catherine Simonsdotter who was Andrew Smedberg's maternal grandmother. So far, I haven't found any sons with the last name of Simonsson, but there could be some. Simon lived in the early-mid 1700's.
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Lived: 1829 - 1907 (78 years) Title: Swedish King 1872-1907 (35 years) - Norwegian King 1872-1905 (33 years)
Election language: 1872-1905 The well-being of the brothers, 1905-1907 Sweden's well Oscar II Bernadotte was born on January 21, 1829 at Stockholm Castle as the third son of Oscar I (29) and Josefina by Leuchtenberg (21). When Oscar was baptized he was given the title of Duke of Östergötland.

In July, 1845, he took the naval officer's degree and became second lieutenant at the navy that same month.
Since Oscar was the third son of the royal couple, no one thought that in time he might become king, but when he was 22 (1852), his older brother, "singer-prince" Frans Gustaf (25), died. This meant that Oscar became number two to the throne, after his older brother Karl XV.
In 1856, he became an accountant, and the same year he made a foreign trip, including to the court in Nassau, Germany, where he freed, and got - Yes, by Princess Sofia of Nassau. The wedding was then held in Biebrich on June 6, 1857. In time, the children received:
1) Gustav (F) Bernadotte 1858-1950
2) Oskar Bernadotte 1859-1953
3) Karl Bernadotte 1861-1951
4) Eugen Bernadotte 1865-1947

Oscar turned out to be a good skull and also a good story writer. In 1857 he won the Swedish Academy Second Prize for his poem From the memories of the Swedish Navy. His "Collected Writings" (1885-1902) included a total of seven bands.

When his brother Karl XV died in 1872, Oscar became king in Sweden. He was crowned in Stockholm's Great Church with his wife Sofia, on May 12, 1873, to the King and Queen of Sweden, and on July 18 the same year in Trondheim to King and Queen in Norway. He was the last to be crowned in both countries. It is said that he was a brilliant speaker and it came in handy at all the railway openings he spoke at.
When the union between Sweden and Norway disbanded in 1905, he had to resign the government over Norway. The Norwegians came up with the proposal to elect his son, Carl, to the King of Norway, but he did not want Oscar. The one who took over the regency in Norway instead became Haakon VII (33) who was king there until his death in 1957.

As a person, Oscar was weak for flattery and puck, and he lived under the strong belief that the king is God's emissary to rule the kingdom, and this he felt meant "to show the king the respect he deserves." Oscar II died after a period of illness on December 8, 1907, aged 78 and 10 months. He had been king for 35 years in Sweden and 33 years in Norway. Next to be king was his son Gustav V. Graveyard: Stockholm - Riddarholmskyrkan
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