Gustaf V of Sweden
King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
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- Momentum3.2
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Lived 1858–1950, aged 92Sweden
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Updated 2026-06-21
He reigned for 43 years, died at 92, and holds the record as Sweden's oldest monarch — yet Gustaf V is remembered less for longevity than for being the last Swedish king to wield actual power, a prerogative he lost after forcing a constitutional crisis in 1914 and never fully recovered.
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Born the eldest son of Oscar II in 1858, Gustaf V ascended in 1907 and became the first Swedish king since the High Middle Ages to forgo coronation. His early reign collided with the rise of parliamentary rule: in 1914 he dismissed Liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff and installed his own man, but after the Liberals and Social Democrats won a majority, he bowed to the new government that stripped the monarchy of virtually all power and enacted universal suffrage by 1919. He remained popular for the next three decades, though his pro-German and anti-Communist stances surfaced during both world w…
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