ugly French. My French is the one spoken in the trenches of 1914." De Gaulle later attended her memorial service in Paris, which was the first occasion for a French president to visit the Swedish church there, as well as one of only two occasions de Gaulle visited a memorial service of the kind. Queen Louise's last official engagement was the Nobel Prize dinner of 1964, during which no one noticed that she was in fact already ill. Death and funeral Queen Louise died on 7 March 1965 at Saint Göran Hospital, in Stockholm, Sweden, following emergency surgery after a period of severe illness. She had made her last public appearance at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in December 1964. Queen Louise is buried beside her husband and his first wife, Crown Princess Margaret, in the Royal Cemetery in Solna north of Stockholm. Honours : Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria : Knight of the Order of the Elephant : Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose : Dame Grand Cordon with Chain of the Order of the Royal House of Chakri : Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Recipient of the Medal of French Gratitude : Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Recipient of the Queen Juliana Investiture Medal : Member of the Royal Order of the Seraphim Royal Family Order of King Gustaf V Royal Family Order of King Gustaf VI Adolf Recipient of the 90th Birthday Badge Medal of King Gustaf V Recipient of the 70th Birthday Badge Medal of King Gustaf V : Recipient of the Royal Red Cross (RRC) Recipient of the British War Medal Recipient of the Victory Medal Recipient of the Voluntary Medical Service Medal Arms and monogram Ancestry Queen Louise was the second of the four children of Prince Louis of Battenberg, by his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and a great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria. Both Queen Louise and her stepchildren were great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. References Sources Fjellman, Margit: Drottning Louise – En biografi (Queen Louise – A Biography), Bonniers, 1965; 232 pages (Sweden) Fjellman, Margit: Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden, London, Allen Unwin, 1968; Fridh, Kjell: Gamle kungen Gustaf VI Adolf. En biografi (Old King Gustaf VI Adolf. A