The House of Bernadotte is the royal house of Sweden since 1818. Between 1818 and 1905, it was also the royal house of Norway. After the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden and the subsequent election of a Danish prince as King Haakon VII of Norway in 1905, the reigning royal house of Norway has been a branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg, originally from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, the same royal house as the Danish and former Greek royal families.

The founder of the Bernadotte dynasty, Carl XIV Johann of Sweden, was born Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, in the town of Pau, province of Béarn, France, in 1764. During the French Revolution, he rose to the rank of general. In 1798, he married Désirée Clary, whose sister was married to Joseph, Napoleon's elder brother. In 1804, Napoleon granted him the title "Prince of Pontecorvo".

Due to Napoleon's negotiations, in 1810, Bernadotte was elected crown prince of Sweden and as "Prince Bernadotte" went to Stockholm. He then acted officially as regent during the illnesses of the aged, childless King Carl XIII, and in 1818 became king, as Carl XIV Johann, until his death in 1844.

Succeeding rulers from the House of Bernadotte were his son Oscar I (reigned 1844–59), Carl XV (1859–72), Oscar II (1872–1907), Gustav V (1907–50), Gustav VI Adolf (1950–73), and Carl XVI Gustaf, born in 1946, who is the current monarch since 1973.

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