Gunnila Bernadotte

Gunnila Bernadotte at Princess Madeleine's wedding in 2013

Gunnila Märta Louise Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg (12 May 1923 – 12 September 2016) was a Swedish countess.

The daughter of Nils Wachtmeister af Johannishus, she was first married to Carl-Herman Bussler in 1942; the couple had three children together.[1][2] Following his death, on 29 September 1988 in Copenhagen she became the second wife of the also widowed Count Carl Johan Bernadotte, youngest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who had been a childhood friend of hers.[3][4][5] Through her marriage to Bernadotte she became nobility in Luxemburg.[6]

In 2010, Bernadotte gave her the house in Båstad which he had built for himself and his first wife, Kerstin Wijkmark.[7] He died in 2012.[3][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit – blev 93 år". Expressen (in Swedish). 13 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Åsa Bönnelyche (12 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish).
  3. 1 2 Anna Sköld and Agneta Nisbeth (6 May 2012). "Greve Carl Johan Bernadotte har avlidit". Svensk Damtidning (in Swedish).
  4. ↑ Hanna Olsson (13 September 2016). "Grevinnan Gunnila Bernadotte har avlidit". Aftonbladet (in Swedish).
  5. ↑ Ella Kay (13 September 2016). "In Memoriam: Countess Gunnila Bernadotte af Wisborg". The Court Jeweller.
  6. ↑ von Rothstein, Niclas, ed. (2009). Kalender över Ointroducerad adels förening (in Swedish) (22nd ed.). Ointroducerad Adels Förening. p. 22. ISBN 9789163350382.
  7. ↑ Kenny Lindquist (11 June 2010). "Carl Johan Bernadotte skänker sin villa till frun". Helsingborgs Dagblad (in Swedish).
  8. ↑ "Suru-uutinen Ruotsin hovissa – rakastettu kreivitär kuoli" (in Finnish). Finland: MTV. 13 September 2016.
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