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Hace 12 horas · The dynastic aspect was a precondition for any attempt at a Scandinavian unification. It mostly depended on King Oscar. The possibility of putting a Bernadotte on the Danish throne had been discussed in public for almost 20 years, and the unresolved question of the Danish succession had become a painful reality after the death of Christian VIII.
Hace 12 horas · Bernadotte Family Archives (Bernadotteska Arkivet), Stockholm (BFA)) Oscar I’s and Queen Josefina’s archive. Google Scholar • No. 36. Oscar I’s entries for 16 th April and 12 th July 1855. Google Scholar • No. 36. Oscar I’s entries for 17 th January 1856. Google Scholar • No. 47.
Hace 12 horas · These plans ended up in the Bernadotte family’s own archives and have left traces elsewhere too. The hopes, and more especially the fears, which nineteenth-century Scandinavianists felt for the future meant that a number of them were prepared to take up arms to create the society and the polity that, in their eyes, were necessary if Scandinavia was to survive.
Hace 12 horas · By offering the alliance in the first place, and pledging to help defend Schleswig, King Oscar had gone a long way, but his sons Oscar and Charles were prepared to go even further. The fear in Stockholm, not least among the Scandinavianists, was that the window for Scandinavianism would close completely if the government crisis in Denmark paved the way for a conservative administration of ...
Hace 12 horas · By as early as the 1830s, the majority of Scandinavianists had agreed to place a Bernadotte on the Danish throne when the Oldenburg royal house died out with Crown Prince Frederick (king Frederick VII from 1848).
Hace 12 horas · Oscar Björnstjerna, the Swedish-Norwegian envoy to Copenhagen, was a convinced Scandinavianist and allowed Rosenmüller to use the diplomatic mailbag when he wrote to Emil von Qvanten. Ultra-Scandinavianists were still hoping for support from the royal court in Stockholm for their extremist plans.
Hace 12 horas · The psychological moment offered by the death of Frederick VII was over, but a new one could appear with the king’s funeral on 19 December. If either Charles or Oscar arrived in Copenhagen to attend, the ultra-Scandinavianists were bent on triggering a revolution to bring the Bernadottes on the Danish throne.
