Victoria of Baden (German: Sophie Marie Viktoria; 7 August 1862 – 4 April 1930) was Queen of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until her death in 1930 as the wife of King Gustaf V. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development of democracy and known to be pro-German during the First World War.

She was given a conventional education for her gender and class with focus on art, music and languages, and could play the piano, paint and speak French and English.

[6] In 1889, she had pneumonia, and was formally ordered by her doctors to spend the cold Swedish winters in a southern climate.

She greatly disapproved of the marriage between her brother-in-law Prince Oscar and her lady-in-waiting Ebba Munck af Fulkila in 1888.

[5] Swedish court life was also dominated by a certain stiffness, upheld by her favoured lady in waiting, Helene Taube.

[10] Queen Victoria lost much popularity among Swedes for her often noted pro-German attitude, particularly politically during World War I when she is said to have influenced her husband to a large extent.

[5] She kept up a close contact with her first cousin, German Emperor Wilhelm II, whom she often visited during the war[11] She founded "Drottningens centralkomittée" ("The Queen's Central Committee") for defence equipment.

She deeply resented the social democratic election victories in 1917 and worked to prevent them from taking part in the government.

From 1892 to her death, Axel Munthe was her personal physician, and recommended for health reasons that she spend winters on the Italian island of Capri.

While initially hesitant, in the autumn of 1901 she travelled to Capri, arriving to an official welcome and a crowd that escorted her from the Marina Grand to the Hotel Paradise.

After some time, she decided to purchase her own residence on Capri, an intimate rustic two-storey farmhouse she named Casa Caprile, which she had extensively landscaped, surrounding it with a dense park.

They also shared a love of animals, with the Queen frequently being seen with a leashed dog, and she was known to support Munthe's (eventually successful) efforts to purchase Mount Barbarossa for use as a bird sanctuary.

Her final visit to Sweden was on her husband's 70th birthday in June 1928, and Queen Victoria died on 4 April 1930 in her home Villa Svezia in Rome aged 67. married 2) Louise Mountbatten (1889–1965), a stillborn daughter