Re: Swedish heirs to the throne, 1973-1977
The heir presumptive was his uncle, Prince Bertil. His sisters have never had succession rights, so there would have been nothing to *restore.* The dynasty would simply have gone extinct, had he and his nephew, the new king, died without male heirs. Carl XVI Gustaf's other uncles renounced their rights for themselves and their descendants, when marrying commoners. And Parliament didn't change the law to permit female succession until 1980. But by then, the king had married and fathered two children.
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