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3 unusual facts about Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg


Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg

He was chairman of Ointroducerad Adels Förening, the association of the unintroduced nobility in Sweden, from 1948 till 1963.

They became friends of the film star Greta Garbo, who stayed with them in their Swedish home near Båstad.

Bernadotte lost his succession rights to the Swedish throne and renounced his titles in 1946 when he married in New York City, New York on 19 February a woman who was not of equal rank (i.e., not of a sovereign house), the journalist Elin Kerstin Margaretha Wijkmark (Stockholm, 4 October 1910 – Båstad, 11 September 1987), daughter of Henning Wijkmark and wife Elin Larsson.



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