Princess Amalia | |
Full Name: | Amalia Maria Charlotta |
Birth Date: | 22 February 1805 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm |
Death Place: | Oldenburg |
House: | Holstein-Gottorp |
Father: | Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden |
Mother: | Frederica of Baden |
Princess Amalia of Sweden (Amalia Maria Charlotta; 22 February 180531 August 1853) was a Swedish princess, daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Frederica of Baden.
Amalia was born in Stockholm and raised under the supervision of the royal governess Charlotte Stierneld. Amalia left Sweden with her family upon her father's deposition after the Coup of 1809 and was raised in her mother's native country of Baden.
She was interested in music and was a friend of Jenny Lind.[1] She was afflicted with rickets and died unmarried and childless in Oldenburg.[2]