Just one year and nine months after, it was time for Sweden to cry its monarch. On the 15th September 1973, King Gustav VI Adolf died, having acceded in 1950 on the death of his own father, King Gustav V. Gustav VI Adolf’s son, named after him, had been killed in 1946, and his son Prince Carl Gustav had, in 1973, been crown prince for 23 years. The King of Sweden had maintained a court quite full of protocol and tradition, having inclusively refused the marriage of his son Prince Bertil, second in the line of succession in a country in which women could not accede the throne, to Lilian Craig, a simple commoner. On the 15th September 1973, Sweden has a new king: Carl XVI Gustav. The enthronement ceremony, yet very solemn but more discreet than in the years of King Gustav VI Adolf’s reign, took place on the 19th September, in the Throne Room of the Royal Palace of Stockholm. In another room of the Royal Palace, the King presided over the Cabinet meeting, and after having announced what his title would be, signed the enthronement documents, listening afterwards to a brief speech by Prime Minister Mr. Olaf Palme.
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