Personal relationships of Charles XIV John of Sweden

The personal relationships of Charles XIV/III and I John included relationships with his male courtiers and his marriage to Désirée Clary, with whom he fathered children. The influence his favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign.

Growing up, Charles (b. 1765) have relationship with his father, Maximilian I, Duke of Radziłów and his mother, Maria Elizabeth of Lodz.