Birgitta Ingeborg Alice from Sweden
Birgitta Ingeborg Alice, Princess of Sweden (born January 19, 1937 at Haga Castle near Stockholm ), Princess of Hohenzollern , is the second child of Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden , Duke of Västerbotten and thus a sister of King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden from the House of Bernadotte .
Life
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Princess Birgitta was born on January 19, 1937, the second child of Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . She has a brother and three sisters: Margaretha , Désirée and Christina . In 1959, while visiting relatives, Birgitta met her future husband at a cocktail party. On December 15, 1960, the engagement to Johann Georg Prince von Hohenzollern (1932-2016) was announced. The civil wedding took place on May 25, 1961 in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, the church wedding on May 30, 1961 in the parish church of St. Johann Evangelist in Sigmaringen .
As the widow of Johann Georg Prince von Hohenzollern, she is the only one of the siblings whose spouse comes from a family of high nobility . Thus she was allowed to keep the title of Royal Highness. In 1990 the couple separated but stayed married. Birgitta now lives in Mallorca . Her husband was the general director of the Bavarian State Painting Collection until 1998 . He died in Munich in early March 2016.
The marriage had three children:
- Carl Christian (* 1962) ⚭ 1999 Nicole Helene Neschitsch
- Désirée (* 1963) ⚭ 1st) 1990 Heinrich Graf zu Ortenburg , ⚭ 2nd) 2004 Eckbert von Bohlen and Halbach
- Hubertus (* 1966) ⚭ 2000 Uta Maria König
Princess Birgitta is involved in several charitable organizations and is honorary chairman of the Royal Swedish Gulf Society, which she took over after the death of her uncle Prince Bertil of Sweden . She organizes regular golf tournaments on her private golf course on Mallorca, at which the “Princess Birgitta Trophy” is awarded.
Title and coat of arms
title
- Her Royal Highness Birgitta, Princess of Sweden (1937–1961)
- ( Swedish : Hennes Kungliga Höghet Birgitta, Sveriges Prinsessa )
- Her Royal Highness Birgitta, Princess of Sweden and Hohenzollern (since 1961)
- (Swedish: Hennes Kungliga Höghet Birgitta, Prinsessa av Sverige och Hohenzollern )
coat of arms
The coat of arms is quartered by a narrow golden paw cross and has a heart shield .
The heart shield is split. Right in blue and red, divided diagonally to the right by a silver sloping bar with a golden wasa streak . At the top left in blue a golden eagle soaring to the right , above which the constellation “Big Dipper” with seven golden stars hovers. Below is a roof-shaped silver bridge with two tinned towers, which stands on a middle, large and two smaller passages, above a silver field cut with silver waves.
Unlike her brother's daughters, Birgitta, like her sisters, was never made a Swedish duchess. All three therefore all bear the Swedish coat of arms, without any changes in the four fields. In the first and fourth fields in blue three (2: 1) set golden crowns (for the small imperial coat of arms of Sweden ). In the second and third field is in blue, on three silver obliquely left wave beams a golden rotgezungter and -bewehrter winning gold, Leo ( Folkunger Coat of Arms).
On the shield rests a golden, five-pointed prince's crown with lace pearls and a blue cap with gold crowns. Between the tips there are black wasagarrows placed vertically.
The actual coat of arms is enclosed by the ribbon of the Royal Order of the Seraphines .
ancestors
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Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden |
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Duke Friedrich VIII of Schleswig-Holstein |
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany |
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| Grandparents |
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Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884–1954) |
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| parents |
Gustav Adolf Hereditary Prince of Sweden , Duke of Västerbotten (1906–1947) |
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Brigitta of Sweden |
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photos
The princesses Margaretha, Birgitta, Désirée and Christina with their brother Carl Gustav (1948)
Birgitta at her wedding with Johann Georg Prince von Hohenzollern (1961)
Princess Birgitta and Princess Margaretha at the wedding of Princess Madeleine (2013)
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| SURNAME | Birgitta Ingeborg Alice from Sweden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Birgitta of Hohenzollern |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish princess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haga Castle near Stockholm |