-
When Bertil's father died in 1973, his nephew Carl XVI Gustaf ascended the throne.
BBC: Princess Lilian of Sweden: Swansea pays tribute
-
By the time King Carl XVI Gustaf took the throne in 1973, times had changed.
CNN: Sweden's Princess Lilian dies at the age of 97
-
King Carl XVI Gustaf will present them with their awards at a Stockholm ceremony on 27 August.
BBC: Youssou Ndour and Kaija Saariaho win Polar Music Prize
-
But Sweden's ambassador to the Arctic Council, Gustaf Lind, rejected the Greenpeace claims that the document was woolly and vague.
BBC: Concerns raised over 'useless' Arctic oil spill plan
-
National Environmental Merit Award (2006) and The Royal Order of the Polar Star (2002) delivered by His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden.
UNESCO: Programa Hidrol��gico Internacional: Nombramiento Sra. Blanca Jim��nez Cisneros
-
In 1947, Bertil's eldest brother, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, died in a plane crash, leaving behind an infant son who would one day inherit the throne.
BBC: Princess Lilian of Sweden: Swansea pays tribute
-
The prince's father, King Gustaf VI Adolf, refused to give his blessing to a marriage between Bertil and Lilian, so as not to jeopardise the future of the monarchy.
BBC: Princess Lilian of Sweden: Swansea pays tribute
-
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia were infuriated two years ago when some Swedish newpapers published pictures of a thin-looking Victoria and suggested that she had an eating disorder.
ECONOMIST: Scandinavia��s republicans
-
Prince Bertil's two brothers had already renounced their right to the throne by marrying commoners and the only heir, his older brother Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph, died in a plane crash in 1947.
CNN: Sweden's Princess Lilian dies at the age of 97
-
With a strong possibility that Prince Bertil would have to act as Regent to the present King Carl XVI Gustaf, who was less than a year old when his father was killed, the couple did not marry.
CNN: Sweden's Princess Lilian dies at the age of 97
-
In Sweden, King Carl Gustaf is 67.
CNN: Will any of Europe's other older royals step down?