Editing Princess Margaret of Connaught (section)

==Death==
[[File:Gustaf VI Adolf, Margaret & Louise of Sweden grave 2009 (1).jpg|thumb|Graves of King Gustaf Adolf and his two wives, Margaret and [[Louise Mountbatten|Louise]], in the [[Kungliga begravningsplatsen|Royal Cemetery]] on Karlsborg Island in [[Solna, Sweden]]]]
At 02:00 on Saturday, 1 May 1920, her father's 70th birthday, Crown Princess Margaret died suddenly in [[Stockholm]] of "blood poisoning" ([[sepsis]]). Sometime before this she had suffered from [[measles]], which aggravated her ear, and she underwent surgery to remove a [[Mastoiditis|mastoid]]. Since the previous Sunday, she had been suffering from pain in her face from something below her eye, and doctors decided to perform another procedure. On Thursday, symptoms of [[erysipelas]] appeared under her right ear. She fell gravely ill on Friday night when symptoms of sepsis became evident, and she died within hours.<ref>{{cite news |title=Crown Princess of Sweden – Death After Short Illness |work=[[The Times]] |page=15 |date=3 May 1920}}</ref> At the time, she was eight months pregnant with her sixth child. In announcing her death during traditional [[International Workers' Day]] celebrations, Swedish Prime Minister [[Hjalmar Branting]] said: "the ray of sunshine at [[Stockholm Palace]] has gone out" (''Solstrålen på Stockholms slott har slocknat'').<ref>[[John Van der Kiste]] in ''Northern Crowns; the Kings of Modern Scandinavia'', {{ISBN|0-7509-1138-7}}, p. 78.</ref><ref>[[Prince Carl Bernadotte|Bernadotte]], Wieselgren & [[Åke Ohlmarks|Ohlmarks]] in ''Sveriges hundra konungar'', Biblioteksböcker, Stockholm 1956, p. 563.</ref>

In Britain, there had been reports that Margaret was unhappy in Sweden and there were dubious rumours that her death had been a suicide.<ref>David Williamson in ''[[Debrett's]] Kings and Queens of Europe'', {{ISBN|0-86350-194-X}}, p. 136.</ref>

Princess Margaret was buried according to her specific and detailed wishes, written in 1914. She asked to be buried in her wedding dress and her veil, with a crucifix in her hands, in a simple coffin made from English oak and covered in British and Swedish flags. She requested that there should be no [[lying-in-state]] after her death.<ref>{{cite news |title=Princess Margaret's Last Wishes – Wedding Dress as Shroud |work=[[The Times]] |page=11 |date=10 May 1920}}</ref>