Weird History: King of Sweden

Every once in a while history does something totally ironic (in the sense of something unexpected, not something disappointing). For example you would expect that the King of Sweden would be, you know, Swedish. Or at the very least the new king would be from some obscure branch of the family ruling Sweden imported from somewhere or other. Rather like how the British had a habit of importing minor Germanic nobility vaguely related somehow whenever they ran out the sons and daughters of their king or just plain didn't like the current one. Yet in 1818 something very odd happened...

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