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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Solna, Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf (born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. Carl XVI Gustaf is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history, having surpassed King Magnus IV's reign of 44 years and…
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Carl XVI Gustaf (born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. Carl XVI Gustaf is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history, having surpassed King Magnus IV's reign of 44 years and 222 days on 26 April 2018. Carl Gustaf was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandfather, King Gustaf V. He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His father died in January 1947 in an airplane crash in Denmark when Carl Gustaf was nine months old. Carl Gustaf became crown prince and heir apparent to the Swedish throne at the age of four when his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf acceded to the throne in 1950. Carl Gustaf acceded to the throne upon his grandfather's death on 15 September 1973. Shortly after he became king, the new 1974 Instrument of Government took effect, formally stripping the monarchy of its remaining executive powers. As a result, Carl Gustaf no longer performs many of the duties normally accorded to a head of state in parliamentary regimes, such as the formal appointment of the prime minister, signing legislation into law, and being commander-in-chief of the nation's military. The new instrument explicitly limited the king to ceremonial and representative functions, while he retained the right to be regularly informed of affairs of state. As head of the House of Bernadotte, Carl Gustaf has also been able to make a number of decisions about the titles and positions of its members. In June 1976, Carl Gustaf married Silvia Sommerlath. They have three children: Victoria, Carl Philip, and Madeleine. The King's heir apparent, after passage on 1 January 1980 of a new law establishing absolute primogeniture, is his eldest child, Crown Princess Victoria. Before the passage of that law, Victoria's younger brother, Carl Philip, was briefly the heir apparent, as of his birth in May 1979.
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2026
King Harald IV of Norway: The funeral
Movie Fellow monarch
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2026
Kungaparets guldbröllop - intervju
Movie Self
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2026
Kungaparet - 50 år tillsammans
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2026
Kungen 80 år - intervju
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2026
Lars Wallin - The Prince of Glamour
Movie Self
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2026
Marie Göranzon - När rampljuset slocknar
Movie Self
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2025
Året var 1976
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
H.M. Konungens jultal
TV show
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2025
Guldvaskaren från Lannavaara
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Friidrottsfeber – Hjältarna som tände en nation
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Teater är den nya hiphopen
Movie Self
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2025
Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc.
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
"My World"
Movie
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2024
Smokeys dröm - när Formel 1 kom till byn
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
La Camilla - från gata till glamour, tur och retur
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2023
Kungen och jag
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2023
The Kings Inner Circle
TV show Self
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2023
The King
Movie Self
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2023
Året var 1973
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Schwedens Krone
Movie
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2022
Dronning i 50 år
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
VM-94 - En sportsaga
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- 2018
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2015
104 dagar
Movie Self
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2013
Stenbeck
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2012
Palme
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
Public Speaking
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2010
Görgen with G
Movie Self
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2009
Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären
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- 2004
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2002
Conspiracy '58
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- 2002
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2000
Gå på vatten
Movie Self
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1995
Un siècle d'écrivains
TV show
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1992
När bollen var rund
Movie Self
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1988
Kunglig resa i USA
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1985
Ett porträtt av John E. Franzén
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1981
Portrait: A Film of Stockholm
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1972
Till Kungen fram
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