Human Rights in an effort to have the Government of Sweden acknowledge his princely title there, but in 2004, after his death, the ECHR declared the application inadmissible. The wording on his gravestone, at the Royal Cemetery, which is owned by the king, does make it clear that he was "born Prince of Sweden". From 1994 to 2002, he was the oldest living great-grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and having reached the age of 94, he was her longest-lived male descendant until being overtaken by his younger brother Carl Johan on 29 June 2011. Honours and arms Orders and decorations Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (21 March 1952) King Gustaf V's Jubilee Commemorative Medal (1928) King Gustaf V's Jubilee Commemorative Medal II (1948) Arms Ancestry See also Swedish Act of Succession Instrument of Government (1809) References External links 1907 births 2002 deaths Artists from Stockholm Uppland Swedish memoirists Sigvard 1907 Swedish industrial designers Uppsala University alumni Sigvard Swedish people of British descent Sigvard Disinherited European royalty Sigvard Knights of the Order of Charles XIII Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Sigvard Sons of kings 20th-century memoirists Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star