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: If I am getting my dates right, Queen
: Christina became queen regnant at 6 and
: would have had the (still) longest reign if
: she had not abdicated. But, of course, she
: does and thus does not.
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I believe that is correct.
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: HM King C XVI G was quite a young man (27?)
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: the time of his accession so the longest
: lived monarch in Sweden is no doubt a
: milestone. I wonder who was the youngest
: monarch to succeed to the Swedish
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: I think that was Karl XI, who was 4 years
: old whe he inherited the throne in 1660. He
: died in 1697.
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: I think Carl Gustaf was even younger than
: Denmark's queen upon her accession and the
: claim, at the time,i.e., 'the worlds
: youngest queen in the world's oldest
: monarchy'.
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: Very interesting. Has he broken any other
: records as well? Or will he soon?
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: He was the first Swedish monarch in more
: than 4 centuries to marry a commoner who was
: not even a noblewoman.
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: However he has a fair way to go before
: claiming the longest-lived record given that
: his 2 immediate predecessors both lived into
: their 90s!
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