Background
Born in Milan, Italy, she was a daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, the first Duke of Leuchtenberg, and his wife, Princess Augusta of Bavaria. Her paternal grandmother and namesake was Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie, the first wife of Emperor Napoléon I of France. Her maternal grandfather was King Maximilian I of Bavaria.
At birth she was given the title Princess of Bologna by Napoléon, and later she was also made Duchess of Galliera.
Princess Joséphine married Oscar I by proxy at the Leuchtenberg Palace in Munich on 22 May 1823. They also conducted a wedding ceremony in person on 19 June in Stockholm. Through her mother (her maternal line of Hesse and upward through Hanau and Ansbach, Baden-Durlach and Kleeburg), Joséphine was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden and Charles IX of Sweden, thus also making her children descendants of Gustav Vasa, etc. Through her maternal grandfather, she was also one of the descendants of Renata of Lorraine, granddaughter of Christian II of Denmark.
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