Princess Birgitta of Sweden

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Princess Birgitta
Princess Birgitta at the wedding of her niece Madeleine on 8 June 2013
Born (1937-01-19) 19 January 1937 (age 87)
Haga Palace, Solna, Sweden
Spouse
(m. 1961; died 2016)
IssuePrince Carl Christian
Princess Désirée
Prince Hubertus
Names
Birgitta Ingeborg Alice
HouseBernadotte
FatherPrince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
MotherPrincess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Princess Birgitta of Sweden LoK av KMO (Birgitta Ingeborg Alice; born 19 January 1937) is a member of the Swedish royal family. She is the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Family

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Among her sisters she alone married a man of princely status, and, in keeping with the tradition that princesses who marry princes retain their royal status, Princess Birgitta retained her Swedish style of Royal Highness,[1] a higher treatment than that of Serene Highness, to which the Princes of Hohenzollern and their wives were historically entitled.

Marriage

Wedding day of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern in Stockholm.

In 1959, Birgitta met Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern at a cocktail party in Germany. On 15 December 1960, their engagement was announced.

The couple were married in a civil ceremony in the Hall of State of the

Roman Catholicism when she married the Hohenzollern prince, but her application was rejected in wording which questioned her spiritual commitment to the change.[2]

Prince Johann Georg and Princess Birgitta separated in 1990, although they remained married. She lives on the island of Mallorca in Spain, while her husband lived in Munich. He died in 2016.

Johann Georg and Birgitta's marriage produced three children:

  • Prince Carl Christian of Hohenzollern (b. 5 April 1962 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany), married Nicole Helene Neschitsch (b. 22 January 1968, Munich) on 26 July 1999 in Kreuzpullach. They have one son.
  • Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern (b. 27 November 1963, Munich). She married Heinrich Franz Josef Georg Maria, Hereditary Count of Ortenburg (b. 11 October 1956, Bamberg) on 21 September 1998 in Weitramsdorf. They had three children before divorcing in 2002. Then she married Eckbert von Bohlen und Halbach (b. 1956).
  • Prince Hubertus of Hohenzollern (b. 10 June 1966 in Munich), married Uta Maria König (b. Trier 25 February 1964).[citation needed]

The Princess and her children were passed over for succession to the Swedish throne when subsequent

Prince Bertil
.

Public life

In November 1960, Birgitta visited the

Renaissance Blackstone Hotel in Chicago by Mayor Richard Daley.[3]

Princess Birgitta was involved with golf and charities outside of Sweden and was an honorary board member of the (British) Royal Swedish Golfing Society,

Majorca
, the Princess Birgitta Trophy, at her home golf course.

On Christmas Day 2022, Sweden's national public service Sveriges Television broadcast a recent hour-long documentary and interview with the princess where she detailed her often troubling life as a Swedish royal.[5]

Titles, styles, honours and arms

  • 19 January 1937 – 25 May 1961: Her Royal Highness Princess Birgitta of Sweden
  • 25 May 1961 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Hohenzollern[6]

Honours

Arms

  • Arms of Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937–1961)
    Arms of Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937–1961)
  • Arms of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Hohenzollern (1961–present)
    Arms of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Hohenzollern (1961–present)

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ "Placering - Sveriges Kungahus". Royalcourt.se. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  2. p. 223
  3. ^ "November 3, 1960 - 2 Princesses Will Visit Chicago | Chicago Tribune Archive". Archives.chicagotribune.com. 3 November 1960. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Latest competitions - The Royal Swedish Golfing Society". Rsgs.info. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  5. ^ Link for continued viewing until 24 December 2023
  6. ^ Murphy, Damien (21 October 2011). "Sydney gets excited about the other royal visit". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

External links

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