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See also:CHARLES XV . (1826-1872), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sweden and See also:Norway, eldest son of Oscar I., king of Sweden and Norway, and See also:Josephine See also:Beauharnais of Leuchtenberg, was See also:born on the 3rd of May 1826. On the 19th of See also:June 1850 he married Louisa, daughter of See also:Prince See also:Frederick of the See also:Netherlands. He became See also:regent on the 25th of See also:September 1857, and king on the See also:death of his See also:father (8th of See also:July 1859). As See also:crown-prince, Charles's brusque and downright See also:manners had led many to regard his future See also:accession with some See also:apprehension, yet he proved to be one of the most popular of Scandinavian See also:kings and a constitutional ruler in the best sense of the word. His reign was remarkable for its manifold and far-reaching reforms. Sweden's existing communal See also:law (1862), ecclesiastical law (1863) and criminal law (1864) were enacted appropriately enough under the direction of a king whose See also:motto was: "Build up the See also:land upon the See also:laws!" Charles XV. also materially assisted De Geer (q.v.) to carry through his memorable reform of the constitution in 1863. Charles was a warm See also:advocate of " Scandinavianism " and the See also:political solidarity of the three See also:northern kingdoms, and his warm friendship for Frederick VII., it is said, led him to give See also:half promises of help to See also:Denmark on the See also:eve of the See also:war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable. In view, however, of the unpreparedness of the See also:Swedish See also:army and the difficulties of the situation, Charles was forced to observe a strict See also:neutrality. He died at See also:Malmo on the 18th of September 1872. Charles XV. was highly gifted in many directions. He attained to some See also:eminence as a painter, and his Digte show him to have been a true poet. He See also:left but one See also:child, a daughter, Louisa Josephina Eugenia, who in 1869 married the crown-prince Frederick of Denmark.
See See also:Cecilia See also:Bath-Holmberg, Carl X V., som enskild See also:man, konung och konstndr (See also:Stockholm, 1891); Yngvar Nielsen, Det norske og svenske Kongehus fra 1828 (See also:Christiania, 1883). (R. N.
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