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He is son of the Crown
Prince Gustaf Adolf, who died in a plane crash in Copenhagen in 1947, and Princess Sibylla
of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, who died in Stockholm in 1972. King Carl Gustaf married Miss
Silvia Renate Sommerlath on June 19, 1976 in the Stockholm Cathedral. Their children are
Victoria, Carl Philip and Madeleine. The King has also four older sisters: Margaretha,
Birgitta, Désirée and Christina. Carl Gustaf became the Crown Prince at the age of four, when
Gustaf V died. Hewent to the preschool and he was taught privately at the Royal Palace of
Stockholm. He went to the military service, where he was two and a half years. He trained in
the Army, Navy and Air Force. He also took part in a long voyage on the mine-laying vessel
in Älvsnabben in the winter of 1966-1967. He had studied history, economics and all kind of
academic studies.
During the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany in 1972, the Crown Prince met Miss
Silvia Sommerlath
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