Swedish Princess. She was originally Princess of Denmark of the Oldenburg Dynasty and her name is given with its 20th-century legal spelling. She was a granddaughter of King Carl XV of Sweden, Carl IV of Norway. Married to Prince Carl of Sweden, she was Duchess of West Gothland and until 1905 also Princess of Norway. She married Carl 1897 in Copenhagen. In 1947 on their Golden Wedding Anniversary, her spouse admitted that their marriage had been completely arranged by their respective fathers, and she added: "I married a complete stranger!". It was a popular marriage because of her Swedish heritage. For her first 10 years in her new home country, when Queen Sofia of Sweden seldom attended public events and Crown Princess Viktoria spent most of her time abroad for health reasons, she had many duties, unofficially performing much of the role associated with the queen consort. She performed those duties with dignity and easygoing friendliness and wit. She was interested in sports, especially ice skating, and at the automobile exhibition of Stockholm of 1903, she and Crown Prince Gustaf spontaneously demonstrated a new car from Scania. She and Carl lived an informal and intimate family life with their children. In 1922 a bank crashed and they had to sell their home. In 1905 the Norwegian government had discussed making them King and Queen of Norway, but Carl declined the offer and her brother was elected King Haakon VII of Norway. Her kinship to the Scandinavian dynasties helped bring the three royal houses together again after tension created due to Norway's 1905 secession from the union with Sweden. During World War II she blocked the window of her house facing the German Embassy in Stockholm. She was the grandmother of three European monarchs, King Harald V of Norway, King Baudoin of Belgium and his brother King Albert II, as well as great-grandmother of two: Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Philippe, King of the Belgians.