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Carl Johan Bernadotte
Carl Johan Arthur, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, KmstkNO (31 October 1916 – 5 May 2012) was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.
Bernadotte was born a Prince of Sweden and granted the title of Duke of Dalarna but renounced these titles to marry a commoner. He was the uncle of two reigning monarchs, Margrethe II of Denmark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as one queen consort, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. He was also the last surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.
Bernadotte was born on 31 October 1916 on Stockholm Palace as the youngest surviving child of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught. He graduated from Lundsbergs School in 1935 and enlisted in the Swedish army where he achieved the rank of Captain before leaving the service in 1948.
Near the end of World War II, Bernadotte was allegedly considered for the Hungarian throne although nothing came of it.
Bernadotte lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles in 1946 when he married the journalist Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark (4 October 1910 – 11 September 1987), daughter of Henning Wijkmark and wife Elin Larsson, in New York City on 19 February. As his unconstitutional marriage to Wijkmark — enskild mans dotter ('daughter of a common man') — could not be approved by the Swedish government, Bernadotte knew he was giving up his Swedish titles and succession rights.
They adopted two children:
The Bernadottes lived for some time in New York City, where he worked as the representative of the Anglo-Nordic Trading Company. They made friends with the film star Greta Garbo, who stayed with them in their Swedish home near Båstad.
On 29 September 1988, the widowed Bernadotte married his childhood friend, the Swedish noblewoman Countess Gunnila Märtha Louise Wachtmeister of Johannishus (12 May 1923 – 12 September 2016), in the Swedish Gustaf's Church in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the ceremony, his sister, Queen Ingrid, hosted a wedding banquet for the couple at Fredensborg Palace. Upon marrying Wachtmeister, Bernadotte became the stepfather of her two surviving children from her previous marriage.
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Carl Johan Bernadotte
Carl Johan Arthur, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, KmstkNO (31 October 1916 – 5 May 2012) was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.
Bernadotte was born a Prince of Sweden and granted the title of Duke of Dalarna but renounced these titles to marry a commoner. He was the uncle of two reigning monarchs, Margrethe II of Denmark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as one queen consort, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. He was also the last surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.
Bernadotte was born on 31 October 1916 on Stockholm Palace as the youngest surviving child of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught. He graduated from Lundsbergs School in 1935 and enlisted in the Swedish army where he achieved the rank of Captain before leaving the service in 1948.
Near the end of World War II, Bernadotte was allegedly considered for the Hungarian throne although nothing came of it.
Bernadotte lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles in 1946 when he married the journalist Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark (4 October 1910 – 11 September 1987), daughter of Henning Wijkmark and wife Elin Larsson, in New York City on 19 February. As his unconstitutional marriage to Wijkmark — enskild mans dotter ('daughter of a common man') — could not be approved by the Swedish government, Bernadotte knew he was giving up his Swedish titles and succession rights.
They adopted two children:
The Bernadottes lived for some time in New York City, where he worked as the representative of the Anglo-Nordic Trading Company. They made friends with the film star Greta Garbo, who stayed with them in their Swedish home near Båstad.
On 29 September 1988, the widowed Bernadotte married his childhood friend, the Swedish noblewoman Countess Gunnila Märtha Louise Wachtmeister of Johannishus (12 May 1923 – 12 September 2016), in the Swedish Gustaf's Church in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the ceremony, his sister, Queen Ingrid, hosted a wedding banquet for the couple at Fredensborg Palace. Upon marrying Wachtmeister, Bernadotte became the stepfather of her two surviving children from her previous marriage.