Victoria with Gustaf V
Victoria of Baden
Victoria was the daughter of great duke of Fredrik of Baden.
and Louise of Preussen. 1881 she married crownprince Gustaf of
Sweden in Karlsruhe. At Oscar II death 1907 Gustav V and Victoria
king and queen of Sweden.
As she had a poor health she often had to get out of Stockholm.
1906-1919 she lived three to four months each year at Solliden,
Öland. After 1919 she spent long periods on Capri. During
the first worldwar she once was at the castle in Karlsruhe when
it was attacked by French bombers.
At the end of the war she was forced to flee Karlsruhe and eventually
she ended up at the castle of Mainau which she became the owner
of after her parents deaths. 1919 She returned to Sweden where
she kept herself occupied by her interest in art and literature.
1926 she moved to Villa Svezia in Rome where she died in 1931.
Queen Victoria was a talented person in art and Literature and
she had a high work moral. At the breakout of war 1914 she founded
the queen Victoria centralkommité in order to organise
the work to help the suffering people. She also founded Drottning
Victoria's Vilohem near Soliden. She worked for the red cross
and for the defence of Sweden.
She gave birth to three sons: Gustaf Adolph, Vilhelm and Erik.
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