The House of Bernadotte, the current Royal House of the Kingdom of Sweden, has reigned since 1818. Its founder, Charles XIV John of Sweden , was adopted by Charles XIII of Sweden , who belonged to the House of Holstein-Gottorp which was becoming extinct.

Following the Finnish War in 1809, Sweden suffered the traumatic loss of Finland, which had constituted the eastern half of the Swedish realm for centuries. House of Bernadotte, royal dynasty of Sweden, from 1818. The agony and resentment towards King Gustav IV Adolf precipitated a coup … Between 1818 and 1905, it was also the royal house of Norway . Between 1818 and 1905 it was also the Royal House of Norway. The House of Bernadotte has reigned in Sweden since 1818 when Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, a Marshal of France, assumed the throne as King Carl XIV John (Karl XIV Johan). His predecessor King Carl XIII was childless and the House of Holstein-Gottorp was becoming extinct.

The House of Bernadotte, the current royal house of Sweden, has reigned since 1818. The name derives from a family of old lineage of Béarn, France, whose earliest known member (17th century) owned an estate in Pau known as “Bernadotte.” In 1810, Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, a celebrated marshal of France under Napoleon,