Editing Charles XV (section)

==Issue==
By his wife, [[Louise of the Netherlands]], Charles had two children, a son who died in infancy and a daughter who married the King of Denmark. The early death of Charles's only legitimate son meant that he was succeeded on the thrones of Sweden and Norway by his younger brother Oscar II.
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|[[Louise of Sweden|''Louise'' Josephine Eugenie]]||31 October 1851||21 March 1926||married, 1869, [[Frederik VIII of Denmark]]; had issue (including [[Christian X of Denmark]] and [[Haakon VII of Norway]]).
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|[[Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland|''Carl Oscar'' Vilhelm Frederik]]||14 December 1852||13 March 1854||died in infancy of pneumonia.
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Charles also sired an illegitimate son, Carl Johan Bolander, (4 February 1854 – 28 July 1903), the father of Bishop [[Nils Bolander]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Sahlberg |first=Carl-Erik |title=Nils Bolander: diktare och predikant |year=1994 |publisher=KM-förl. |location=Aneby |language=sv |isbn=91-86112-39-2 |id={{LIBRIS|7755088}} |page=11}}</ref> and daughter, Ellen Svensson Hammar (28 October 1865 – 1931), and it has been widely rumored that Charles had many more extramarital children.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lagerqvist |first1=Lars O. |last2=Åberg |first2=Nils |last3=Hjelm |first3=Lars E. |title=Kings and rulers of Sweden: a pocket encyclopaedia |edition=2., rev. |year=2002 |publisher=Vincent |location=Stockholm |isbn=91-87064-35-9 |id={{LIBRIS|8836893}} |page=48}}</ref>

A few weeks before Charles's death, his daughter Louise (then Crown Princess of Denmark) gave birth to her second son, Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905, Prince Carl ascended to the throne of Norway with the [[regnal name]] ''[[Haakon VII]]'', thus becoming Charles's successor in that country.<ref>{{cite web|url=     https://nbl.snl.no/Haakon_7|title= Haakon 7|publisher =  Norsk biografisk leksikon	|author=  Ole Kristian Grimnes|access-date= September 1, 2016}}</ref>

No subsequent king of Sweden to this day is Charles's descendant. However, his descendants are on the thrones of Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium and Norway.